The on-going strike by National Association of Resident Doctors, or NARD, has brought health system to it’s knees nationwide as top general hospitals discharged some of its patients with immediate effect, iwinesslive.com can report.
A visit to some of the hospitals revealed total compliance with the strike as only a few Consultants and House Officers were rendering skeletal services to patients with serious complaints.
Findings revealed that the striking doctors have remained adamant.despite the recent announcement by the Federal Government’s of 25 percent salary increase,
A quick check at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos, NOHIL; Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, to other tertiary health institutions nationwide, including the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja revealed patients were being discharged in an alarming rate.
For instance, at both the LUTH and LASUTH on Monday, hospital services were disrupted following the strike. Some of the patients who spoke to Good Health Weekly, lamented the effects of the strike.
Some patients who were attended to but asked to return after the doctors resumed, gave kudos to the Consultants who attended to them, even as others that were turned back or left unattended, decried the high cost of transportation to and from the hospitals.
