Culled From: Trends.com.ng
There was a twist on Tuesday in the face-off between the Lagos State Government and medical doctors in its service as the government, barely 24 hours after sacking 788 striking doctors, said it was ready for dialogue and negotiation.
The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, made this disclosure on Tuesday while speaking on the crisis rocking the health sector in the state.
“We are still ready to dialogue with the doctors and even negotiate. We have over time bent and bent to accommodate their demands. Sacking was not a palatable decision for us to take,” Idris told journalists at the Alausa secretariat.
The commissioner however said the 373 doctors the state employed to replace their sacked colleagues had resumed work on Tuesday.
But Lagos appeared not to be weary as the state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Aderemi Ibirogba, insisted on Tuesday that the government reserved the right to sack the doctors.
The commissioners spoke even as the sacked doctors’ lawyer, Bamidele Aturu, in a statement on Tuesday reminded the public that the doctors’ suit against the Lagos State Government would come up before the National Industrial Court on Wednesday (today).
The suit in which the doctors had pre-empted their mass sack by the government was filed on April 24, 2012.
Also, the Chairman of the Medical Guild in the state and leader of the doctors, Dr. Olumuyiwa Odusote, said the government was not being sincere in its so-called readiness for dialogue over the matter.
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