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However, some of the patients at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido Ekiti were discharged by the hospital authorities.
Also, NARD EKSUTH President, Dr Olaniyi Olaoye, said, “In the last three weeks, the hospital could not admit patients as a result of the strike action. We are calling on the state government to pay our outstanding salaries for us to resume work to attend to the growing number of patients in the state.”
The Vice President, Association of Resident Doctors, FMC, Katsina, Dr Hassan-King Obaro said resident doctors at the centre had joined the strike. In Kwara State, ARD members, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital also joined their counterparts in the nationwide strike.gathered that the doctors stayed away and did not report for duty at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital on Monday as many patients who had appointments with their doctors were seen stranded in the premises.
Meanwhile, resident doctors of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Awka and Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi, Anambra State, joined the nationwide strike. One of our correspondents, who monitored the strike action in some hospitals in the state capital, observed that at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, only 40 patients, who came very early in the morning, were selected to be attended to by two consultant doctors on duty.
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