Activities at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, or UITH, in Kwara State have been halted by the Resident Doctors Association’s (RDA) five-day warning strike.
According to findings by DAILY POST, in place of the striking resident doctors, only consultants are currently seeing patients.
However, the consultants are overburdened by the sheer volume of patients they must see every day.
Similar to how fewer surgical procedures have been performed in the hospital’s operating room since the strike action, with consultants stepping in to help in emergency situations.
Additionally, new patient admissions have been suspended, although those who were admitted prior to the warning strike are still being cared for.
The patients who are still in the hospital have begged the striking physicians to come back to work for their welfare.
The Chairman of the resident doctors association, UITH branch, Dr. Ijaya Mutalib, stated in an interview with DAILY POST on Friday in Ilorin that “we are totally complying with the instruction of the national body of the association.
After the five-day warning strike’s expiration on Monday, he continued, “We hope to resume.”
Remember how the union called for a countrywide, five-day warning strike to pressure the federal government into granting its demands, which include improved welfare among others?
After a last-week’s impasse at a meeting, the federal government responded to the situation by bringing back its “no work, no pay” policy in an effort to weaken the determination of the striking doctors.
