The indefinite strike by health workers at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, has entered the third week.

The workers are protesting the non- payment of January and February salaries.

They are demanding that the state government stops paying their salary and allowances to Osogbo, Osun State, adding that the teaching hospital in Ogbomoso is an autonomous institution and should not be tied to the string of its Osogbo counterpart.

Speaking with our correspondent, one of the workers said: “The harrowing experiences we go through whenever we go to Osogbo to collect our salary are better imagined than experienced. We are being treated like second-class citizens and subjected to all sorts of psychological turmoil. It is unthinkable for us to be working in Ogbomoso and going to another state to collect our salary. Enough is enough. We are no more going to Osogbo.”

Although doctors did not join the strike, the absence of nurses and other professionals is affecting health care delivery.

Many patients have been hurriedly discharged and support services like the laboratory and other diagnostic services cannot be accessed.

By Bode Durojaiye, Ogbomoso