NARD Warning Strike: Doctors Address Dilemma In Abandoning Dying Patients

criticizing doctors for going on strike and ignoring the health conditions of patients in the hospitals, without considering that doctors will not be able to attend to the patients if they are not well taken care of psychologically, emotionally and physically.

In Yobe, one of the northeast states that have been hardest hit by the Boko Haram insurgency has had healthcare services deteriorate over the years leaving its people desperate. According to him, the administration of Hon Mai Mala Buni has been meeting most of the demands of the union especially on the provision of the state of the art equipment and improved condition of service.

Yobe is however not the only place where resident doctors in state own hospitals are not joining the nationwide-wide strike. In Rivers State, there are two teaching hospitals; the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital and the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital . According to NARD chairman, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital , Calabar, Dr. Calab Ekuri, as much as doctors have a moral obligation to save lives, they also have a responsibility to take care of thier immediate families as well as pay for childrens’ education and cater for the needs of thier families.

“Just as it affects our patients,its also affects the doctors. Agreed, the lives of patients come first. What I am saying is that what is worth doing is worth doing well,” the doctor said. Expressing their resolve not to back down, the President of the UUTH chapter of NARD, Dr. Margaret Egan Erhunmwunsee, said the striking doctors are hamstrung by collapsing health infrastructure, shortage of professional health workers and government’s refusal to engage new ones to replace those seeking greener pastures abroad.Speaking to LEADERSHIP Sunday, the Public Relations Officer of Federal Medical Centre in Yenogoa, Bayelsa, Mr.

“I think I will return to my mother in my community, Ibiaku Ntuk Okpo, Ikono Local Government Area, for her to take me to the traditional birth attendant because my delivery date is due any time from next week, according to the last check at the UUTH,” a pregnant woman, who identified herself as Uduak, lamented.

She said, “I gave birth to the set of twins a few days ago. I brought them to the hospital because they are having some health issues but there is no doctor to attend to them. I am appealing to government to listen to the demands of the doctors in our own interest.”

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