Suleja General Hospital Evicts Patients

The Suleja General Hospital, Niger State, yesterday, discharged all the patients on admission following a strike by Nigeria labour congress (NLC).

When LEADERSHIP visited the hospital, the workers had deserted their duty posts to participate in the protest over the removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government. Just as the hospital gate was shut and patients rushed there were rejected and asked to go to other clinics.

Our reporter gathered from the patients that the hospital management asked them to leave the premises for their own good because no doctor would attend to them.

Only three patients were left in the almost 200-bed capacity hospital when our reporter visited.

A man, who spoke to LEADERSHIP on the development, expressed dismay over the action of the management and decried the sudden ‘eviction’ of patients from the hospital.

Abdullah, whose wife was admitted in the emergency ward of the hospital, described the situation as unfortunate.