Doctor's strike: Patients appeal to FG to meet doctors' demands

Date: 2021-04-06

Patients in the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) appealed to the Federal Government to meet the demands of the striking doctors in the country, a report of casualties of the strike was made.

Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Monday on their sick beds, the patients said that doctors were no longer attending to them since the strike action commenced last week.

"My name is Abdulkareem Idris, I'm suffering from prostate cancer.

"The doctors complain of a lack of adequate manpower and the necessary equipment to work with. With the high volume of patients in this hospital, there is no enough staff to cope with the situation. I call on the government to provide an answer to their requests because they're working.

"I've been coming here since last year September for treatment of prostate cancer. I was brought here last Tuesday for emergency treatment while the strike commenced last Thursday. I want the government to answer them because so many people are dying. Since I came here, three people have died because no doctor was treating them. You can see how empty the emergency unit and wards are.

"So, we're appealing. Our leaders are not doing well. They travel abroad for treatment when they are sick and leave the hospitals in the country to suffer neglect," he said.

Also speaking, President, resident doctors, UITH, Ilorin, Dr Badmus Habeeb, confirmed that the strike action is 100 per cent successful.

Dr Habeeb, who said that the doctors are being owed three months salary, added that efforts to make the Government see reasons with them failed.

"The government should show responsibility and come to the table to talk on the way out and pay the salary of people they're owing, so we can go back to our work as we know how to do always.

"The decision to go on strike is quite unfortunate because it's an avoidable one if the government actors have actually played their roles the way they should have played it. Our members have not been paid three months salary and all efforts to see to it that government negotiates with us and solve the issue has actually failed.

"All our pleas, and the ultimatum given also failed, leading to our members being owed three months salary and no explanation for it whatsoever or how long the situation would linger.

"And that's why we showed the government that the physical and mental health of our members should not be toyed with. Because it's when we are okay mentally and physically that we can give maximum ability on the job," he said.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ekiti     AGILE Programme     General Hospital     Sam Onile     Press Release     Mohammed Lawal Bagega     Senate Presidency     Muritala Olarewaju     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Sayomi     Sobi     Deji Ajani     Ekweremadu     Dumagi     CKNG     Omu-aran     Gbajabiamila     Simon Sayomi     Mohammed Halidu     Marufat Oladosu     Kwara 2015     College Of Health     Tunji Ajanaku     Hassan Taiye Salam     Emir Of Shonga     Olaiya Zuberu     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Abdullahi Biffo     Rasheed Jimoh     Simeon Ajibola     Eleyele     Samuel Adaramola     Durbar Festival     Mustapha Akanbi     Medview Airlines     Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Stephen Fasakin     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     National Party Of Nigeria     Ahmed Bayero     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Olusola Saraki     AbdulRazaq Jiddah     Hamza Usman     Ubandawaki     Razaq Ayobami Akanbi     Shonga Farm Project     Maigidasanma     Sebastine Obasi     Abraham Ojo     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Hajj     Babatunde Idiagbon     NIRSAL     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Lafiagi     Isiaka Yusuf     Olaiya Lawal     Goodluck Jonathan     International Public Sector Accounting Standards     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Ilesha Gwanara Road     TESCOM     Col. Taiwo     Saidu Kawu     Kwara State Sports Commission     George Innih     Kwara     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     IHS Towers     Oba Abdulraheem     Share     Irepodun     Kaiama     Quran    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Isau     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Suleiman Idris     Post-utme     Eleyele     Zulu Gambari     Saliu Mustapha     Funmilayo Zubair     Sam Okaula     Agbarere     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Tanke Road     Code Of Conduct     Elelu     Esinrogunjo     Kwara South     Modibbo Kawu     Air Peace     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Kwara 2023     Saka Abimbola Isau     Gamji Members Association     Park     Kunle Suleiman     Abioye Bello     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Tosin Saraki     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Musibau Akanji     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Monthly Sanitation     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Ilorin East     Ubandawaki     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Bamidele Aluko     Gaa Olobi     Ramadan     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     MMWG     Ridwan Agboola     Aliyu Muhammed     Baboko Primary School     Afeyin-Olukuta     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Alaaya     Oluwole Dupe     Buari Edun     Ajia-Bako     Olawuyi     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Harmony Holdings     Tunde Saad     Yakub Lai Gobir     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Iponrin     Micheal Imoudu     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Offa Descendants Union     Kwara-SAPZ Project     Oye Tinuoye     Sidikat Uthman Ajibola     Isapa     Funmilayo Oniwa     Lithium     Shonga Farm Project     COEASU     KWTV     Funke Adedoyin     Omu Aran     Saeedat Aliyu     Opobiyi     Shururat Olatinwo     Abdulhakeem Adelaja Amao     Abubakar Abdulraheem     Mohammed Abduraheem