• Asaba Federal Medical Centre still closed
The Chairman, National Association of Resident Doctors, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (UUTH), Dr Christian Adeneye, has described the purported sack of doctors by the Federal Government as a rumour.
Adeneye was reacting to the sack of resident doctors an-nounced by the Federal Minis-try of Health on Tuesday in Abuja. The members of NARD em-barked on the industrial action on Monday to press home their demands for improved condi-tion of service.
But Adeneye told NAN yes-terday in Uyo that government should not had taken such ac-tion while they were on the ne-gotiation table. He advised government to lis-ten to complaints that led to the strike instead of taking actions that would be inimical to the progress of the medical profes-sion and the health sector.
"You cannot sack somebody because somebody is asking for his right.
"We are asking for our right and we are on the negotiation table. You cannot be talking about sack when we are on the negotiation table. ' The sack issue as far as we are concerned is a rumour. If at all it exists, we want to say the Minister of Health or who-ever was involved was ill ad-vised," Adeneye said.
He said the national presi-dent of NARD had called an emergency meeting to delib-erate on issues raised at a meet-ing between the association and Speaker House of Repre-sentatives on Tuesday.
The doctors at the hospital were yet to call off their strike and that patients were being attended to by nurses, senior doctors and other medical workers.
The resident doctors had embarked on a warning strike on April 25. Also at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba, Delta, doctors are yet to return to work a day after the House of Representatives Speaker Yaku-bu Dogara intervened in their face-off with government.
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Dogara held a meeting with the leadership of the associa-tion, where he appealed to the doctors to return to work and give the House a week to seek a peaceful resolution of the face-off. The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the FMC, Asaba, Dr Victor Osiatuma, told NAN yesterday in Asaba that doc-tors in the hospital were yet to resume, pending an official directive from NARD. "Doctors are yet to resume as they are still awaiting direc-tive from the association. Though the Speaker had inter-vened and asked the doctors to return to work, the congress has to meet and consider the Speaker's proposal.
"After the federal govern-ment's pronouncement last Tuesday to sack the striking doctors, Speaker Dogara and various House Committees held a meeting with the lead-ership of the striking doctors.
"Dogara urged both the government and NARD to stay action on the face-off to allow eaceful resolution between both parties," he said.
Some out-patients were seer milling around the premises ,,f the hospital, as nurses and oth-er hospital staff stayed away from the wards, many of which were under lock and key.
A pregnant out-patient, Mrs Obiageli Nkwor, told NAN that the strike has left many of the patients, mostly pregnant mothers, stranded and hope-less.
"As you can see, many of us have come'for our regular ante-natal treatment, but were turn back home.
"This incessant strike is not good for the sake of our health. Let the government and the doctors find a lasting solution to their differences to help save the lives of ordinary peo-ple," Nkwor urged.
Source: The Nation News
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