Union threatens showdown with UCH

UCH

Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, University College Hospital, Ibadan, has warned the hospital management against the imposition of a non professional as head of laboratory services.

The union gave the warning on Thursday while reacting to the management’s decision to appoint the deputy Chairman, MAC (Laboratory) as the hospital’s Director of Laboratory Services.

 Chief Medical Director, UCH, Prof. Temitope Alonge, in a letter dated on March 20, addressed to the association, said, “In line with the current reform in the Ministry of Health and the UCH, the deputy Chairman MAC positions should be service related.

“To this effect, the deputy Chairman MAC (Laboratory) will be referred to as  deputy Chairman MAC, laboratory and Director of Laboratory Services with immediate effect”.

However, the association, led by its first Vice-President, Alhaji  Raheem Toyosi, disagreed with the management over the issue. He said, “The problem between our association and the management of UCH has to do with inconsistency of the management with the provision of law.

“In the first place there is no provision for the position of CMAC in decree 10 of 1985 that establishes the teaching hospital. The management of UCH is not above the law. The position of the director of laboratory should be occupied by a laboratory scientist.”

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