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Patients stranded as LASUTH resident doctors begin 3-day strike
IT was a sad day for hundreds of patients, who turned up for medical services at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, as they were turned back following the three-day warning strike embarked upon by medical doctors under the auspices of Association of Resident Doctors, LASUTH- ARD.
The medical doctors had last week threatened to embark on strike over the acute shortage of doctors and house officers in the hospital, claiming that the failure of the State government to replace exited ones is negatively impacting on their health and quality of medical services at the institution.
As early as 8:30 am when Vanguard arrived at the hospital, hundreds of patients who besieged the hospital as early as 5 am to keep their appointments with doctors including new patients were thrown into a state of confusion as record officers advised them to take new appointment dates.
Several of these patients who came from various parts of Lagos including Ikorodu, Badagri, and Agbara were left unattended to.
Vanguard, January 29, 2019
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