As doctors in the employ of Lagos State continue with their strike, public hospitals have become a shadow of themselves.
The hospitals have been almost deserted.
The strike, which has been on since Aug. 9, is to press for the implementation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Scale.
The doctors also want the sacked former chairman of the Medical Guild, Ibrahim Olaifa, reinstated, and the resumption of deduction of members' union dues and a downward review of their Pay-as-you-Earn taxes.
Many patients on admission had been discharged.
The paediatric, out-patient, dental and eye departments were deserted, while only the emergency unit offered skeletal services.
But at the HIV department of the Lagos State University Hospital, officials of the Institute of Human Virology in Nigeria were seen attending to patients.
A pharmacist said on condition of anonymity that all the units had been affected by the strike except the pharmacy, medical records and administrative departments.
Siji Bolodeoku , the Public Relations Officer, LASUTH, said the strike was not an issue that the management of the hospital could resolve with the doctors.
The Medical Guild and Association of Resident Doctors, Lagos Chapter, on Sept. 20, defied the state government’s directive to resume work or face sanctions.
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