By Chioma Obinna

LAGOS—The crisis at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, deepened, weekend, as its doctors called for forensic financial audit of the hospital and other Federal Government-owned hospitals, alleging over-bloated workforce.

Making this call at an interactive session with journalists in Lagos, the doctors, under the auspices of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Association of Resident Doctors, LUTH-ARD, also blamed the current low patronage on the astronomical increase in hospital charges for admission, surgery and other sundry services by over 300 percent.

President of LUTH-ARD, Dr Moronkola Ramon Kolade, said the cause of the problems at LUTH was traceable to the culture of financial mismanagement and administrative blunders.