Resident doctors at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital on Tuesday vowed to continue with their strike in spite of a court order asking them to suspend the action.
The association’s President, Oseni Saliu, told newsmen in Ikeja on Tuesday that they decided to resume the strike following a breakdown of negotiations between them and the Lagos State Government.
The doctors had on Aug. 28 resumed their strike after the National Industrial Court, Lagos, had ordered them to suspend an earlier action and to negotiate with the government.
The court had ordered that the negotiations on the doctors demands, which include the implementation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Scheme, be concluded on Aug. 28.
The doctors, who are also demanding the recall of their colleague,Ibrahim Olaifa, who was sacked for allegedly taking part in a nationwide strike early this year, however, resumed the strike after the negotiations appeared to have broken down.
Saliu said the strike will continue because the government has refused to meet our demands.
Meanwhile, patients at the hospital are still being attended to in spite of the strike.
Correspondent who visited the hospital at Ikeja on Tuesday, report that nurses were seen attending to the patients at the wards and the Out-Patient Departments.
Some patients complained that they were not being attended to while others said they were being treated by the nurses.
A student, Sylvia Azonsi, whose father was hospitalised, said The nurses have been doing their best to give us the necessary attention.
A disappointed father of a patient, who simply identified himself as Evans, described the strike as unjustifiable.
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