FG engages ad-hoc doctors in medical centres; Patients lament, relocate to private hospitals

Activities at most public hospitals were yesterday crippled as the strike embarked upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) entered the second day.

Patients in some tertiary and secondary health facilities across the federation were abandoned as majority who were in need of urgent health care returned home without needed care.

According to investigations by New Telegraph, resident doctors in several hospitals complied strictly with the directive to embark on the indefinite strike action, leaving patients who needed attention and care unattended to.

Among state chapters of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) that complied with the directives to embark on strike included resident doctors in Lagos, Niger, Abia, Akwa Ibom, Plateau, Kaduna and Oyo states.

At the ever busy National Hospital in Abuja, New Telegraph correspondent noticed few patients in different sections of the hospital and an almost empty out-of-patient department.

Spokesman of the National Hospital, Dr. Tayo Haastrup, noted that due to the strike, the workload on the available medical doctors has become enormous.

New Telegraph, September 6, 2017

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