*management decries assault, demands apology.
By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Management of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, on Tuesday kicked against the beating up of one of their colleagues by security aides of an Ogbomoso based politician while on duty.
Already, doctors at the hospital have embarked on strike over the attack on the doctor demanding public apology from the politician.
LAUTECH Management in a statement by the hospital’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Omotayo Ogunleye , condemned the attitude of said Ogbomoso politician
The politician security aides were said to have allegedly descended on the doctor at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the hospital on Sunday, September 25th beaten him seriously, saying, it was ” uncharitable for anyone to threaten or bully medical personnel in the line of duty. ”
” The politician was commanding the doctors to place his patient on oxygen and also instructed that he should be taken to Intensive Care Unit. The politician, with the help of his aides descended on a medical doctor, a staff of the hospital, thinking the doctor was filming their devilish displays at the A&E section of the hospital”, it said
LAUTECH Management in the statement warned politician and other members of the community to desist from interfering in the protocol involving patient, and that ” the unfriendly and thuggery attitude of the politician, the Management stated that such attitude was capable of putting the lives of medical staff in jeopardy.” The statement reads ” The Management of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso has frowned at a disturbing event which took place at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the hospital on Sunday, September 25th. A doctor of the hospital( names witheld) was beaten black and blue by the security aides of one Mr Femi Onireti, an upcoming politician in Oyo State.
” While condemning the politician’s manner of interfering with the management of the patient which was brought to the hospital for medical attention, such act would not be tolerated.”
Stressing that “owing to the assault by Mr Onireti and his aides, the doctors at the hospital have embarked on indefinite strike until an apology is tendered to the hospital and phones seized from the victim by the politician and his aides are returned”, the management said the alleged assault has been reported to the concerned police station by the victim for necessary action.
