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Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Doctors' Strike Paralyses Service Nationwide.


Doctors’ strike paralyses services nationwide
Doctors’ strike paralyses services nationwide
ABANDONED: ABOVE: The children ward of Agbowa Primary Health Centre, Ikorodu, Lagos, yesterday.People taking their patients home following the strike by resident doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos... on Tuesday.

t was a pathetic situation in all federal and state-owned hospitals across the country as services were shut down by medical doctors, leaving hundreds of patients, who turned up for appointments, hopeless.
Women, children and men who turned up at the hospitals, irrespective of their conditions, were left unattended to.
The situation in the hospitals was so bad that in some, nurses and pharmacists took over the duty of the striking medical doctors.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/doctors-strike-paralyses-services-nationwide/#sthash.lCthZ7Jp.dpuf







Doctors’ strike paralyses services nationwide

on   /   in News 12:00 am   /   Comments
By Chioma Obinna, Suzan Edeh, Gbenga Ariyibi, Gabriel Olawale, Bosede Oyelohunnu, Chris Ochayi & Rachael Izokpu
It was a pathetic situation in all federal and state-owned hospitals across the country as services were shut down by medical doctors, leaving hundreds of patients, who turned up for appointments, hopeless.
Women, children and men who turned up at the hospitals, irrespective of their conditions, were left unattended to.
The situation in the hospitals was so bad that in some, nurses and pharmacists took over the duty of the striking medical doctors.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/doctors-strike-paralyses-services-nationwide/#sthash.lCthZ7Jp.dpuf

Yesterday, the nationwide strike began, Its so inhuman to think they one could actually not care about certain situation.

It is a pathetic situation in all federal and state-owned hospitals across the country(Nigeria) as services were shut down by medical doctors, leaving hundreds of patients, who turned up for appointments, hopeless.
Women, children and men who turned up at the hospitals, irrespective of their conditions, were left unattended to.

Luth


At LUTH, many patients suffered more humiliation, despite the condition of their health. New patients were rejected outright as not even a single doctor from the cadre of House Officers to Consultant was around to attend to patients.
Lamentations was the order of the day in the various wards; patients on admission continued to recount their woes.
Some of the patients who spoke to Vanguard on condition of anonymity, for fear of being victimised, said they were worried about their fate should the strike continue beyond a day, while others quickly discharged themselves and headed for private hospitals.
 
 Igbobi
At Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, the message was clearly written as patients were turned back right from the hospital entrance gate. Inside the hospital, no patient was seen; only a few were sighted in the various wards.

Lasuth

At LASUTH, where majority of the new patients who were turned back from the various Federal Government health institutions took their cases, they got the shock of their lives as they were also told that doctors in the hospital had also joined the strike. 

Yaba


At the Neuro-Psychiatric, Yaba, the scenario was completely different as the Chief Medical Director, Dr. Rahman Lawal, and two other doctors were on ground to attend to patients.

No patient was turned back when Vanguard visited the hospital. The out-patients department was in full session.







Doctors’ strike paralyses services nationwide

on   /   in News 12:00 am   /   Comments
By Chioma Obinna, Suzan Edeh, Gbenga Ariyibi, Gabriel Olawale, Bosede Oyelohunnu, Chris Ochayi & Rachael Izokpu
It was a pathetic situation in all federal and state-owned hospitals across the country as services were shut down by medical doctors, leaving hundreds of patients, who turned up for appointments, hopeless.
Women, children and men who turned up at the hospitals, irrespective of their conditions, were left unattended to.
The situation in the hospitals was so bad that in some, nurses and pharmacists took over the duty of the striking medical doctors.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/doctors-strike-paralyses-services-nationwide/#sthash.lCthZ7Jp.dpuf

Such a sad situation.

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