UCH Nurses, Doctors Continue Strike Over Assault on Health Workers

 

The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, is still on strike following the death of a patient at the hospital’s Accident And Emergency Unit, leading to the physical assault of two doctors and a nurse by a relative of the deceased . The strike which began on Friday, had disrupted   health care services at the Hospital as doctors and nurses expressed their displeasure over rising cases of assault on health workers within the hospital.

 The NANNM Chairman, UCH,  Mrs Olufunmilola Faminu,expressed concern that assault of  health workers in the country, had become a recurring decimal. She noted that such could cripple service delivery in hospitals and further aggravate brain drain in the medical profession. 

Matron Faminu advised patients and their relatives, to express their grievances through the established channels for complaints, rather than assaulting health workers on duty. 

Similarly, President of the Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, UCH, Dr  Uthman Adedeji, who condemned the attack, stressed that dissatisfaction with hospital services should never result in violence. Our correspondent reports that the strike would be called off, on Tuesday.