Janet Ogundepo The Chief Medical Director of the Lagos State Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Prof Adetokunbo Fabamwo, says doctors in the facility were not on strike and will be at their duty posts attending to medical and surgical emergency cases. The CMD’s comment is coming on the heels of the ongoing indefinite strike embarked on by the Nigeria Labour Congress. On Friday, organised labour members announced an indefinite nationwide strike in response to the Federal Government’s refusal to increase the proposed minimum wage from N60,000.
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero stated that the strike would commence at midnight on Sunday, June 2, 2024. PUNCH Healthwise had earlier reported that some healthcare workers under the aegis of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives and the Joint Health Sector Unions on Monday rendered skeletal services in Abuja hospitals. Fabamwo, who spoke to PUNCH Healthwise through the Director of Clinical Services and Training, Prof Adebowale Adekoya, confirmed that the strike impacted the hospital’s services and as a result, only patients with medical and surgical emergencies were being attended to.
He said clinics would remain closed until the industrial action is over but that doctors manning them would be available to attend to emergency cases. Fabamwo said, “To a large extent, it has had a strong impact on services but we must put it on record that a large number of people working in these premises are not.
