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.

Olukotun Of Ikotun     ER-KANG     Ayo Salami     Prince Bola Ajibola     Isau     Oluranti Idowu     Valsolar Consultoria     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Jawondo     Monthly Sanitation     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     Royal FM     Otuka     Abdulrahman Iliasu     Tafida Of Kaiama     Modupe Oluwole     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Oro Grammar School     Adesoye College     Naira Redesign     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     GRA     Saka Isau     Yekini Adio     Aiyedun     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Ilorin Central Mosque     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Saheed Alakoso     Maimunat Oniyangi     Umar Danladi Shero     Alanamu     Bond     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Baruba     Riskat Opakunle     Oba Abdulrahim     James Ayeni     Ahmed Bayero     Sam Onile     Chief Imam Of Offa     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Yashikira     Smart School     Ndama Al-hassan     Unilorin     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Solomon Edoja     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Teachers Specific Allowance     Muazam Nayaya     Belgore     Idris Garuba     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Computer Based Test     Umar Ayinla Saro     Government High School Adeta     Saad Omo Iya     JSSCE     Ilorin Amusement Park     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Najim Yaasin     Wahab Isa     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Salihu Alhaji Musa     Offa Metropolitan Club     Bio Ibrahim     Share     Binta Abubakar Mora     Lanre Badmas     National Party Of Nigeria     Kabir Shagaya    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Yoonus Kola Olatinwo     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Shero     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Ronke Adeyemi     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Bisi Kristien     Kwara Consultative Forum     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Saliu Oluwole     Kayode Zubair     FERMA     Seun Bolaji     Tsado Manman     QuickWin     Gaa Olobi     Apaola     Kale Ayo     Opobiyi     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Ibrahim Agboola Gambari     Saduki Lafiagi     Muhammed Mahe Abdulkadir     Egbejila     Fareedah Dankaka     Hussein Olokooba     Tafidan Kaiama     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Oke-Kura     Taofik Abdulkareem     Adamu B. Yaqubu     Erubu Oba Zubair     Joseph Daudu     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Kisra     Tunde Oyawoye     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Ibrahim Gambari     Oyedepo     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Abdulazeez Uthman     Lanre Aremu     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     James Ayeni     Noah Yusuf     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Malete     CUTI     Abubakar Baba     Peter Amogbonjaye     Lukman Adeloyin     Quran     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Convocation Ceremonies     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Abdulraheem Olesin     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Towoju     Sarah Alade     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     Folorunsho Alao     Shehu Salau     Muhammadu Gobir     Binta Abubakar-Mora     SARS     Omotoso     Bola Tinubu     Taofik Mustapha     Owo Isowo     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Babs Iwarere     JUSUN     Clement Yomi Adeboye