It was a pathetic situation in all
federal and state-owned hospitals across the country as services were shut down
by medical doctors, leaving hundreds of patients, who turned up for
appointments, hopeless.
Women, children and men who turned up
at the hospitals, irrespective of their conditions, were left unattended to.
The situation in the hospitals was so
bad that in some, nurses and pharmacists took over the duty of the striking
medical doctors.
In some hospitals, out of frustration
and pity for the patients, medical directors were forced to take over the
consulting rooms in a bid to ensure that patients who desperately needed
medical attention had some form of treatments.
However, the Joint Health Sector
Unions, JOHESU, yesterday took a swipe at Nigerian Medical Association, NMA,
over its ongoing strike and advertorial it placed in the media advising Federal
Government to stay action on its agreement with it, warning of imminent crisis
in the nation’s health sector.
From the Lagos University Teaching
Hospital, LUTH; Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Ebutte-Metta; Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH; Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba;
Orthopaedic Hospital Igbobi; Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital, Bauchi,
to Federal Medical Centre, Bida, the situation was the same.
There was total shut down of services
by the striking medical doctors under the auspices of the Nigerian Medical
Association, NMA.
The strike which many patients
described as unpopular was, however, effective against public appeal.
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