At long last, Lagos doctors have called off their three and half months’old strike. And gradually life is picking up at the Lagos hospitals. The patients, the hospital managements, even the doctors are happy to return to work. At the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, a visit showed that between Monday and Tuesday this week, 40 patients were admitted.
At the emergency service unit of the hospital, there was a beehive of actvities as relatives and patients filled up the seats waiting for doctors. Some of the patients, especially the children, looked lean and emanciated.
Anxious relations and friends, with sad faces were busy trying to see what they could to have their problems solved. A man, Charles, in his early forties, leant on the wall of the unit completating. He had rushed his brother from a private hospital to the teaching hospital.
Becaus of the strike, he had taken him to a private hospital but there had been no change in his health status.
His family had been waiting for the strike to be over. Immediately, Charles heard about the end of strike, he rushed his brother to the hospital, and as he told Saturday Vanguard, his brother was responding to treatment.
The problem with the private hospital, he said,was lack of experts in different fields as one doctor could handle all of kinds of ailment. Charles was lucky. A man Jide, had rushed his pregnant wife at 2 am to a general hospital in his neighbourhood at Agbado, only to be told that there was a strike. His wife was bleeding and needed urgent operation to bring out the baby.
Source:http://www.vanguardngr.com
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