has continued to disrupt health services across public tertiary hospitals in Nigeria.
The doctors also want immediate massive recruitment of clinical staff in the hospitals and abolishment of the bureaucratic limitations to the immediate replacement of doctors and nurses who leave the system. When our correspondent visited the Federal Medical Centre and the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, both in Abeokuta, the state’s capital, he noticed that resident doctors fully complied with the directive of their national association.
When PREMIUM TIMES visited the paediatric department of the hospital, two patients’ relatives who were in the waiting room complained about the student doctors attending to them since the commencement of the strike.Christiana Olatunji, one of the relatives, said that since her daughter-in-law delivered a premature baby on Thursday in Agbado, Ogun State, they have been to four different hospitals before they were referred to LUTH on Friday.
Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES, the President of the Association of Residents Doctors , LUTH chapter, Kemi Abiloye, said the members have complied fully with the warning strike. “I came to the hospital this morning with the hope of seeing a doctor and get back to work before 12 p.m. but look at the time now, we are all still waiting,” he said.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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