Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Assault: UCH doctors declare 3-day strike

ASSOCIATION of Resident Doctors (ARD), University College Hospital, Ibadan, on Monday, declared a three-day strike to protest against assault on two of their members on Saturday by some aggrieved members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW).

The transport union members reportedly went wild on Saturday, while waiting to receive the body of the late state deputy chairman, Alhaji Kamorudeen Beyioku, who was shot earlier in the week by some unknown gunmen.

President, ARD, Dr Tunde Babasanya, during a press briefing on Monday, said his members had resolved to embark on the strike to register their protest against the inhuman treatment experienced by resident doctors in the hospital.

“It is sad and the situation is getting out of hand. Many of our members had been victimised and the undeserving treatment is fast becoming a norm,” he said.

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