Photos: Effect Of Doctors' Strike: Patients In Ondo Hospitals Cry Out

The nationwide industrial action by the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in support of their demands has resulted in crippled services in government hospitals in Ondo State.
At the State Specialist Hospital in Akure, activities were at their lowest ebb, with the environment deserted, and no medical doctors available.  Nurses were however at work to give assistance to patients whose condition warranted their attention.
The over-populated wards of the hospital which normally enjoys the heavy presence of doctors however had other health workers available to in-patients the conditions of whom are really bad.
The Accident and Emergency (A and E) units of the hospital, which also treats emergency cases, were also deserted.
The male ward was empty, with nurses busy sorting out pending files. In the female surgical wards, a few patients listed in critical condition were on their beds sleeping. Mrs. Mary Agbaje, who had earlier undergone an operation at the hospital, and is waiting completion of her treatment said the best thing is for the doctors to reconsider and call off the strike in the interest of the patients.
"Have done my operation but only waiting doctors to give me a complete treatment as they have promised,” she said. "We the patients are the ones suffering from the strike. We are appealing to the doctors to please call off their strike in the interest of the sick".
The strike action entered its fifth day on Friday.

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