About 44 patients on admission in the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital were on Monday forced to go home by the management
It was gathered that the hospital did not admit new patients unless in an emergency, which left many sick persons unattended to and stranded.
Few Medical Consultants on ground, however, declined to speak with our journalists when visited but many of the patients turned back from the main entrance were, however, advised by security men to go home. She said, “I don’t know where to go now. I am just stranded, one of the doctors gave me an appointment for surgery, hoping to have it today but see what has happened.
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