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.

Daud Adeshola     Kawu     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Kola Adesina     Ado Bayero     Binta Sulyman     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Aro Yahaya     Third Estate     Jelili Yusuf     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Lotus Bank     Taofeek Sanusi     Olatinwo     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Www.Kwarareports.com     Hakeem Idris     Kamaldeen Ajibade     James Kolo     Abikan     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Saidu Kawu     CT Ayeni     Afolayan     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Buhari     Jide Oyinloye     Gani Saadu     Kemi Adeosun     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Tunde Oyawoye     Islamiya Abdulraheem     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Babata     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Kwara State Sports Commission     Saadu Yusuf     Adamu Attah     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Olatunde Olukoya     Oke-Odo     Abubakar Lah     Jimoh Saadudeen Muhammed     Aliyu U. Tilde     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     AbdulRahman Saad     Mujtabah Bature     Kwara State Governor     Ghali Muhammed     Saheed Popoola     Olaitan Buraimoh     Madawaki     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Mary Arinde     Suleiman Ajadi     All Peoples Party     Bashir Badawi     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Mubarak Oladosu     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Ahmad Belgore     Onikijipa     Edret Sabi Abel     Igosun     General Hospital, Ilorin     Kwara University Of Education     Saad Omo Iya     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Chief Imam Of Offa     Rashidi Yekini     Salman Jawondo     Flights To Ilorin     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Offorjama     Dumagi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kwara Hotel     Surajudeen Akanbi     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Tafida     Ado Ibrahim     Aso-ofi     Ibrahim Mohammed     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Laboratory-to-Product     Paul Olawoore     Kwara     Prince Bola Ajibola     Muideen Olaniyi Alalade     Omupo     Ita-Nmo Market     Gbemisola Saraki     Valsolar     Kayode Ibrahim     Abraham Ojo     Ahman Patigi     Kwara State Polytechnic     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Kwara Apc     Albert Ogunsola     Shola Odetundun     Fareedah Dankaka     Ilesha-Gwanara     CELF     Ojo Isekuse     Adeniyi Ojo     Lithium     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Odolaye Aremu     Oyin-Zubair     Lanre Issa Onilu     Timothy Akangbe     Kwara Basketball Association     Moji Makanjuola     Bisi Kristien     KWATMA     Ilorin Central Mosque     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Saeedat Aliyu     Kanu Agabi     Yakub Ali-Agan     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Yoonus Lawal     Okiki     Amos Justus Sayo     Kwara North     Kwara South     New Nigeria People’s Party     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Riskat Opakunle     Isa Aremu     Kolawole Bashirat     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Kwara State Football Association     Mustapha Olanipekun     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Ayobami Seriki     Baba Isale     Nagode     Femi Oladiji     Hassan Taiye Salam     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Admiralty Villa     Post Utme     Alfa Belgore     Haleeman Salman     Musbau A. Akanji     Offa Poly     Unilorin FM     Hamza Usman     Abdulazeez Arowona     Ilorin.Info