Patients seek alternative medication as strike affect medical services As the strike embarked upon by the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) entered its ninth day, many patients in most hospitals in Kaduna State have resorted to seeking alternative medication. A check at hospitals on Wednesday shows that many patients have been discharged except those with special or critical illnesses who could not go elsewhere. Newsmen learnt that the state hospital, which used to be very busy attending to patients from different parts of the state, had a chain of empty beds. Meanwhile, only the nurses were sighted attending to a handful of patients that remained in the hospital. When contacted, the Medical Director, Yusuf Dantsoho Hospital, Dr Mohammed Armiyau, said the hospital had made arrangements with consultants to provide skeletal services to cushion the effect of the strike. ``Our accident and emergency unit is functional to take care of emergency cases and some consultants are also engaged in the provision of skeletal services to our patients to cushion the effect of this strike,” he said. Armiyau appeal to the parties concerned to resolve all issues so as to save the health sector. ``Doctors are life savers and people are suffering from this strike embarked by them; they should please resolve issues and come back,” he said.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:52:44 +0000
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