Nigeria unpaid doctors strike made it to The Washington Post

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Nigerian doctors indefinite strike that leaves Nigerians in need of medical care nonchalantly untreated featured on The Washington Post.

The article written by a son of the soil and an international Journalist, Chinedu Asadu detailed the reasons why the doctors have turned their back on their duties and the effect of the action on Nigerians.

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The article titled “Unpaid doctors strike in Nigeria amid new COVID-19 surge”, begins with an annotation that Dr Olaniyi Olaoye and other doctors at the State University Teaching Hospital in Nigeria have not been paid a dime for five months.

Adding that since the beginning of the pandemic, there are months they only received 60% of their salaries which led to the resignation of about six doctors.

From the article, over 19,000 doctors in Nigeria are on strike in what appears to be the fourth strike since the pandemic began.

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According to the article, the doctors latest strike was triggered by the discovery of the new COVID-19 variants known as Delta Variant gradually spreading across the country and yet the doctors salaries are unpaid.

According to Dr Olaoye, lucky doctors who have wives who work are depending on their income, he said. “Life is difficult for those who are not”.

Asadu further highlighted the horrific situation of health care in Nigeria describing how patients with COVID-19 symptoms “are being turned away at short-staffed hospitals. Other patients have been discharged into the streets or left to languish in hospital beds without being diagnosed or receiving treatment,” as reported by Nigerian media. he wrote.

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He referenced a report gathered by The Associated Press, at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital of how they witnessed two patients turned away shortly after arrival at the hospital’s emergency room last week.

“We cannot admit — resident doctors are on strike,” a doctor on duty was overheard telling one of the patients. “When they call off the strike, you come back.” he wrote.

Meanwhile, Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, said the federal health ministry has sent him a letter warning that the country’s 19,000 medical residents don’t have the right to strike.

Okhuaihesuyi further added that in some states doctors have not been paid for 16 months.

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