The fates patients on admission at the
Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital are now hanging in the balance
owing to a strike embarked on by members of the Association of Resident
Doctors (ARD) because of
unpaid four months salaries.
When journalists visited the university
teaching hospital on Saturday, some of the patients complained that the
doctors had practically abandoned their duty posts since Monday April 11
and this had deprived them of efficient medical treatments.
Some of the patients, who spoke under
anonymity , said those diagnosed for critical ailments had pressed for
referral to private hospitals and Federal Teaching Hospital , Ido Ekiti,
to prevent sudden death.
A top member of the hospital’s
management team who reacted to the strike under anonymity because he was
not authorized to speak said:
“We are speaking to the striking doctors
, but it seems as if they are recalcitrant , they didn’t want to bow to
pressure at all.
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