Patients Left Helpless As Doctors Goes On Strike
COMMENCEMENT OF ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS ON DEFAULTERS OF GROUND RENT PAYMENTS, LAND USE CONVERSION FEE, C-OF-O BILLS In The Federal Capital Territory
Across Nigeria, patients are being turned away from public hospitals as the ongoing strike by the Joint Health Sector Unions enters its third month, crippling healthcare services nationwide.
COMMENCEMENT OF ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS ON DEFAULTERS OF GROUND RENT PAYMENTS, LAND USE CONVERSION FEE, C-OF-O BILLS In The Federal Capital Territory
The action, driven by unresolved welfare demands, has shut down key hospital units and left teaching hospitals and federal medical centres barely functional.
COMMENCEMENT OF ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS ON DEFAULTERS OF GROUND RENT PAYMENTS, LAND USE CONVERSION FEE, C-OF-O BILLS In The Federal Capital Territory
The strike, which involves health workers excluding doctors and nurses, has stalled services in pharmacies, laboratories and administrative departments.
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In many hospitals, only skeletal services remain, making it difficult to admit new patients or handle emergencies.
In Kwara State, the situation at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital has become critical, with residents reporting that even seriously ill patients are being rejected.
One resident described the experience bluntly, saying, “They are letting us die. If you fall sick now and you don’t have money to go to a private hospital, you are finished.”
Its chief medical director said, “If you come to LUTH, we are admitting every second despite the strike,” but admitted staffing shortages had cut admissions and slowed care.
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