Imo Private Doctors Smile To Banks Over Strike


Posted on: Tue 29-07-2014

Owerri- OWNERS of private medical establishments in Imo State are now smiling to their banks, following the indefinite industrial action embarked upon by doctors emplued by government.
All activities in government-owned hospitals on the state had virtually  come to a halt, as halt, as doctors obeyed their leaders' call to remain at a home until government positively responded to their demands
vanguard investigations revealed that since members of Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, went on strike to press home their demands, there had been an upsuge of patients patronsing private hospitals 
A patient in one of the hospitals in Owerri that simply identified herself as Ifeoma, lamented that despite the increasing number of patients flooding the private hospitals and clinics, the doctors' bills had remained very high.