Resident Doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital [LUTH] have embarked on an indefinite strike action over the implementation of a new tax law which they criticize as exorbitant and lacking in uniform application.
Following a congress of the members on Friday, December 7, which discussed the financial burden occasioned by the new tax law, the association immediately embarked on an indefinite strike action pending the resolution of the tax issues.
The Secretary of the Association of LUTH Resident Doctors, Dr. Kehinde Okunade reportedly said that the resolve to embark on a strike followed review of certain conditions of service at the hospital.
“Despite that the condition of service here is too poor, there is no light in the wards, no water, blood bank not functioning properly and all they can do is implement a new tax law that some of us now pay N30,000 as tax,” he pointed out.
The new tax law by the Federal Government came into effect in June 2011, but the resident doctors say it was introduced by the management at LUTH in August 2012.
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