LUTH’s Patients Appeal to FG, Striking Doctors to End Strike

Some of the patients at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, on Friday said that the warning strike embarked upon by the hospital’s resident doctors had begun to take its toll on them. They told reporters from the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who visited the hospital.

The reporters also observed that only few consultants, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory technicians and cleaners were at their duty posts as the strike entered the third day. Those patients that spoke to NAN appealed to both the Federal Government and the doctors to call off the strike in the interests of the public.

BRIEF OBSERVATIONS ABOUT OUR HOSPITALS - Fasehun Toniprof

I remember taking a client to the hospital some months ago and demanded that the bedsheet be changed. The nurses told me that it will only be changed on Monday since it was a Saturday. Does that mean the bedsheets are changed once in a week? I had to go back home to pick a blanket and bedsheet.

Now I imagine what other patients would have been subjected to. I imaging how safe maternity ward, children ward and trauma ward are. There are housekeepers aside nurses in the wards. Lets assume the housekeepers are ignorant, how about the nurses? If hospitals are not clean, how safe are the treatment and lives of the patients?