Activities at government-owned hospitals in Lagos State were on Wednesday paralysed following a five-day warning strike by directed by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).
The strike is to protest the doctors’ poor working conditions, inadequate funding, and poor infrastructure in the nation’s health sector.
Reports gathered by an agency reporter, who visited the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, the Lagos State University Teaching hospital (LASITH), Ikeja, Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba and National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi, showsthat the strike paralysed activities at the facilities.
Consultants and resident doctors were unavailable to attend to scores of patients who thronged the hospitals.
The correspondents also said the situation was the same at the emergency units of the hospitals.
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