Patients Lament As Health Workers’ Strike Paralyses Hospitals

[Shola Sholaz]

Hard times await patients seeking healthcare services in Federal tertiary health institutions nationwide as the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, has made good its threat to embark on indefinite strike.
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Meanwhile, the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has directed all medical doctors nationwide to remain at their duty posts to ensure uninterrupted services, particularly for emergency cases.
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The strike, which began yesterday morning nationwide, took patients on appointment and on admission by surprise as many of them claimed to have had no previous information regarding the strike.
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Vanguard investigations revealed that although normal healthcare services took off on schedule in some of the affected institutions in Lagos, such activities were interrupted a little after 11:00a.m. by aggrieved members of the striking unio who claimed they were directed to enforce compliance in the various institutions.

[Folami David]

This whole strike won't help matters @ all...Something really has to be done fast so the strike would be called off! People will die in hospitals...