Nurses’ Strike Takes Toll On Services In Kwara Hospitals

The seven-day warning strike embarked upon by nurses and midwives on Wednesday has continued to take its tolls on medical services in government hospitals in Kwara State.

LEADERSHIP’s investigation showed that majority of patients on admission at the Sobi Specialist Hospital, Alagbado and General Hospitals in Ilorin, Omu-Aran and Share, have been evacuated home by their relatives.

A relation of a patient who was on admission at Sobi Specialist Hospital, Alagbado, Dare Mubarak told our correspondent that they have moved the patient to a private hospital at Offa Garage area of Ilorin, the state capital.

He lamented that the family had to source for fund to pay the high bill at the private hospital to save the life of their family member.

At the Ilorin General Hospital, the situation is slightly different as a few patients on admission and whose condition were stable remained on admission and being attended to by the consultants and doctors.

At the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), the patients were also being attended to by the consultants, resident doctors and senior nurses.

“We are attending to patients at UITH. We have neither discharged our patients nor shut our doors against new patients. The consultants, the resident doctors, and of course the senior nurses are on duty attending to patients,” a management staff of the hospital confided in LEADERSHIP.