Kogi FMC doctors embark on strike over ‘threat to lives’
The strike
announcement was made after some unknown armed men stormed the hospital on
Wednesday morning, vandalising properties and carting away valuables.
In a communique
signed by Nnanna Agwu, chairman, Association of Resident Doctors (NARD); Samuel
Obajemu, chairman, Joint Health Workers Union (JOHESU); Abdulmalik Idris,
chairman, National Association of Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) and John Omoche,
chairman, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), the health
workers alleged that their lives were being threatened because of the state’s
“poor” management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The health workers
who said they are “totally withdrawing services across board”, listed some
conditions that must be met before returning back to work and they include;
adequate security of lives and properties, validation of COVID-19 status of
some staff of the hospital that have been in isolation, provision of COVID-19
testing facilities (PCR machines) and maximum of 20 patients being attended to
daily.
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