Strike: Doctors sent out of LASUTH as patients scamper for medical assistance

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By Ijeoma Nwanosike and Musa Adekunle

03 June 2024 | 6:24 p.m.

The ongoing nationwide onslaught has impacted nationalist hospitals, with doctors being sent retired of their consultation offices by national officers astatine Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). This disruption has near patients without attraction from wellness workers. The Guardian learned that immoderate patients were discharged and wellness workers were sent retired owed to the strike.…

The Guardian learned that immoderate patients were discharged and wellness workers were sent retired owed to the strike. Observations indicated that lone the hospital’s exigency portion is operational, and patients scheduled to spot doctors contiguous are being rescheduled.

At the LASUTH accusation centre, unit advised a Guardian newsman to sojourn a backstage infirmary arsenic astir departments were not operational. A patient’s brother, who wished to stay anonymous, stated that those admitted were successful their wards without the accustomed doctors’ rounds oregon attention.

The pharmacy portion was besides affected, with the pharmacy not afloat unfastened and functional.

The President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) told The Guardian that the association, successful a caller communiqué, called connected the Federal Government to find a communal crushed to forestall the strike. “We are inactive hopeful that wrong the adjacent 24 to 48 hours, the Federal Government volition spot reasons for the NLC’s mandate and demands, and displacement grounds to telephone disconnected this indefinite concern action,” helium said.

He explained that though NARD is not a subordinate of the Nigeria Labour Congress oregon Trade Union Congress (NLC/TUC) and is not connected strike, they enactment the NLC/TUC struggle. He added that portion their members mightiness amusement up for work, their capableness to run is limited.

“Even though we amusement up astatine work, we are handicapped. So galore things are not allowed to run. We effort to collate each our efforts to marque the exigency tally arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable retired of respect for the lives of mean Nigerians,” helium said.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) Chairman successful Lagos, Babajide Saheed, urged the Federal Government to swiftly code workers’ concerns to extremity the ongoing nationwide strike.

Saheed expressed that the NMA successful Lagos stands with the NLC/TUC successful advocating for a surviving wage for Nigerian workers, noting that increasing hardships successful the state person led to higher rates of unwellness and decease among the population.

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