Strike: Patients stranded as JOHESU’s strike paralyses hospitals

As Health Workers under the auspices of Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) yesterday began an indefinite strike nationwide, activities at many of the federal hospitals were paralysed, leaving many patients seeking care stranded.

Among facilities where operations were paralysed include the ever busy National Hospital Abuja, the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Kwara State, the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, the Lagos Universtity Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idiaraba, the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), among others.

Worried over the strike, the Head of Department Information and Protocol Dr. Adetayo Haastrup who spoke to the New Telegraph on Wednesday in Abuja, had expressed fears that although doctors and interns were fully on ground to handle the situation, there were strong possibilities that some patients might die as a result of the strike.

New Telegraph, April 19, 2018

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