We are still on strike,Fake members called off UNTH doctors’ strike – ARD President

The Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, UNTH, Ituku Ozalla, Enugu State, has disowned a media report calling for the suspension of its on-going industrial action.

DAILY POST recalls that two doctors, Dr Maxwell N. Egbugara and Dr Ihechiluru Onyebuchi had in a press statement made on Sunday announced the discontinuation of the strike, accusing the ARD leadership of fighting an unjust cause.

However, reacting to the development on Monday, the ARD President, Dr. Ifedinso Ugwuoke said the two doctors were not genuine members of the association.

The statement read: “The attention of the leadership of Association of Resident Doctors, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (ARD UNTH), Ituku Ozalla, Enugu State has been drawn to the purported press statement by Dr Maxwell N. Egbugara and one Dr Ihechiluru Onyebuchi, disowning the leadership of Dr Ugwuoke Aloy Ifedinso, President of ARD UNTH.

“We wish to state categorically state that there is no form of leadership crisis in ARD UNTH and the current demand for the sack of CMD, Dr C. C. Amah is based on verifiable facts and was a decision of a well constituted and attended congress of ARD UNTH.

“While the name Dr Ihechiluru Onyebuchi does not exist in our membership register, we express pity that Dr Egbugara who had been expelled from Residency training before because of his inability to meet up with the requirements of retaining and completing the program in Obstetrics and Gynaecology will summon courage to write against the leadership of the body that has provided succor and support for him because of nepotism.

“It is a plain truth that Dr Egbugara is a close relative of Dr C. C. Amah, and it is on record that Dr Amah in his usual corrupt manner re-recruited the sacked Dr Egbugara into the residency training program clearly and glaringly against the due process.

“We are, therefore, not surprised that Dr Egbugara, who was in the meeting where our decision to withdraw services and fight down the incompetent CMD, will play pawn in Dr Amah’s hands, at whose mercies he remains a staff of UNTH.

“Dr Egbugara knows his time is up! If Amah falls, as he will soon do, he falls too as no new CMD will keep a man on residency for over 16 years in a department as demanding as Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

“It is obvious that the CMD, Dr C. C. Amah, cannot possibly come up with appropriate defense for his inhumanity to the patients and staff of UNTH brought about by his incompetence and love for corrupt practices, hence his decision to attempt this divide and rule game which is dead on arrival.

“We encourage him to keep up with the emergency and make swift changes he is making in UNTH following our public outcry as those may help cut down his jail term, because we are convinced he will not only be sacked, but will also be made to pay for the pains he put patients and staff of UNTH through his period of bad, incompetent and wicked leadership.

 

“I am continuously enjoying the full confidence of members of ARD UNTH even as I gallantly lead the Association in this freedom fight