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At the hospital’s Rheumatology Clinic, a patient, who identified herself as Mrs. Kehinde, said she had suffered greatly since she was referred to the clinic and that the ongoing strike had worsened her already bad situation. At the Cardiology Clinic, the scenario was no different. A nurse at the clinic, who didn’t want her name in print, confirmed that the clinic was closed and that they were only attending to emergency cases.“We are not authorised to speak to the press but the only thing I can say is that there is no clinic for now.
The bustling Mother and Child Centre and other units of the hospitals such as the surgery ward, male medical ward, gynaecology and eye clinics, were quiet as patients looked helpless and thought of the next step. Ajarat Amoo, a relative of another patient, who had been booked for eye surgery before the strike, said: “My father was supposed to undergo surgery and today is his appointment. Unfortunately, this strike has affected everything and his health is worsening every day. We can’t afford the fees for the surgery being charged by the private hospital. The government and doctors should come to a compromise to resolve the matter so as to help us the ordinary citizens.
A visit to some of the Federal Government hospitals in the nation’s capital showed that visit by patients has drastically reduced and local doctors and consultants were deployed to attend to patients in different wards. At the Accident and Emergency unit of the hospital, nurses were seen attending to the two patients in the ward. Aisha Sabitu, who was taking care of her sick husband at the emergency unit of the hospital, told The Guardian that though they came to the National Hospital on referral, the strike was not affecting his treatment.
One of the nurses at the National Hospital, who spoke under condition of anonymity, decried government’s inability to find a lasting solution to the incessant strike in the health sector. At the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, nurses and a few doctors were seen offering skeletal services. One Mrs. Eleojo Hebrew, who was at the hospital with her three-year-old daughter, said they did not encounter any delay or rejection. But she urged the government to resolve the problem “because if you have been coming to this hospital before now, you will know that things are not the same.”
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