The nationwide indefinite strike by doctors entered the second day yesterday with the chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association in Cross River State, Dr. Callistus Enyuma, saying that patients who have been in hospitals with serious won't be abandoned.

Dr Enyuma told newsmen in Calabar yesterday that doctors would however not entertain new cases. 

“Until our 24-point demands are met by the federal government, we will not admit new patients but will however, attend to the already admitted ones whose cases are very serious so they don’t die”, he said.

The Chief Medical Director of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH) Dr. Thomas Agan strongly appealed to the doctors and the federal government to dialogue for sake of patients.

People living with HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Taraba State who yesterday turned out at the Federal Medical Centre Jalingo in large numbers for anti-retroviral drugs as they do every Wednesday, were disappointed as they waited in vain for hours without getting the drugs. Chairman of PLWHA in Taraba State, Comrade Johnson Abraham, lamented the development, saying about 3,000 of them who usually take the drugs couldn’t get the drugs.

Nurses and pharmacists took over hospitals in Katsina State.  A nurse told our reporter in Malumfashi that they had no option than to ensure that patients in fragile conditions are attended to.