High Casualties As Hospitals Discharge, Reject Patients

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Scores of patients are reported to have died across the country following the industrial action embarked by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors

Okhuaihesuyi also blamed poor working conditions in public hospitals, irregular payment of doctors’ salaries and hazard allowances of N5,000 monthly which was last reviewed in 1991.

Some student doctors and nurses at the popular Asokoro, Wuse, Calabar teaching hospitals and other government hospitals across the country who pleaded anonymity told our correspondents that consultants and student doctors attending to clinical services were over stretched due to the high number of patients in emergency.

At the Federal Medical Centre Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, our correspondent observed that patients on admission were being discharged, while new ones were turned back. The head of clinical services at FMC Jalingo, Dr. Wanonyi Ishaya Kwala, while speaking to LEADERSHIP Sunday at the hospital, confirmed that the hospital had stopped all routine services.

At the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital , outpatients were seen moving to the Nigerian Navy Reference Hospital.

 

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