Doctor's Strike: Patients discharged prematurely by UCH doctors

The strike by resident doctors has started taking its toll on the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

In-patients are being discharged prematurely by the management, regardless of their condition.


They were told to go home or patronise private hospitals, as doctors failed to report for work.

It was gathered that some in-patients, whose conditions were critical, were given first aid treatment by nurses before they were discharged.

Yesterday, the emergency wards were empty.

President of the the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), UCH chapter, Babatunde Babasanya, said the strike would continue until their demands were met.

UCH’s Chief Information Officer Toye Akinrinlola said the hospital’s management met with the doctors, but they insisted that they would not suspend the strike until their money was paid.

Akinrinlola said: “We appealed to them, but they stood their ground. We will continue to talk to them and we hope the strike will be suspended soon.”

Resident doctors have been on strike since October 1 over the non-payment of their four months’ salary and inadequate funding of residency training programmes