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.

Arik     Okin Biscuits     Yusuf Arowosaye     Bola Sagaya     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Wahab Abayawo     Suleman Abubakar     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Budo Egba     Saraki     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     SGBN     Sadiq Umar     Ijakadi     Okanlawon Musa     Ayo Salami     Aliyu Olatunji Ajanaku     Dasuki Belgore     Kwara Basketball Association     Local Government     Onilu     Ishola Abdullahi     Kwara 2019     Shero     Kwara State Television (KWTV)     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed     Mohammed Haruna     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Yemi Osinbajo     Alabere     Kamoru Kadiri     REO CAKES     Kwara State Pension Board     Musbau A. Akanji     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Alaro     Magaji Are     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Kwara NIPR     Ali Ahmad     Ahmad Belgore     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Kayode Ibrahim     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Raliat Islamic Foundation     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Nigerian Medical Association     Otuka     Jumoke Gafar     Kawu     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Abubakar Ndakene     Salake     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Press Release     Saba Jibril     Adeniyi Ojo     Adekunle David Dunmade     Ajasse-Ipo     Alfa Belgore     Peter Obi     Ahmed \'Lateef     Odo-Owa     Bamidele Aluko     Gbugbu     Shola Odetundun     NAWOJ     Goodluck Jonathan     Tunde Saad     Crystal Corner Shops     Kwara TV    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Sola Saraki University     Abdulkarim Adisa     Saidu Yaro Musa     IEDPU     Nagode     Durosinlohun Atiku     Ronke Adeyemi     Abdulazeez Arowona     Labaeka     Olaitan Buraimoh     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Elewu     Kaosarah Adeyi     Ilorin West     Elerinjare     Tanke     Isau     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Isiaka Gold     Olupako     Akorede     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Ajakaye     Yakubu Mohammed Abdullahi     Olateju Lukman     Olam Food Ingredients     Offa Poly     Wahab Olasupo Egbewole     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Aso-ofi     UTME     Akom Construction And Engineering Synergy Ltd     Ilorin East     Sanitation Exercise     ASMAU PLAZA     Kwara Liberation Group     Cornelius Adebayo     Ilesha-Baruba     Royal FM     Fatimat Saliu     Charcoal     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Ibrahim Bio     Chief Of Staff     Obayomi Azeez     Abikan     Face Masks     Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Gbemisola Oguntimehin     Nurudeen Muhammed     Tafida Of Kaiama     Amos Bajeh     Salman Suleiman     Okin Biscuit     2017 Budget     Afolabi-Oshatimehin Adenike Harriet     SGBN     NIPR     Garba Idris Ajia     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Mazars Consulting     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Akeem Lawal     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Rotimi Atere     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Kola Ologbondiyan     Ben Duntoye     Shettima Of Ilorin     Sai Kayi     Nurudeen Mohammed     Tsaragi/Share