By Busari Kabirat
The Association of Resident Doctors, (ARD), at the University College Hospital, (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State have started a three-day strike.
The strike is coming from the resident doctors as a result of a member being assaulted by relatives of a patient in the hospital.
Dr. John Oladapo, who is the ARD President, had on Thursday told newsmen that the resident doctors are requesting a public apology from the family that assaulted their member and inflicted injuries on him on Sunday.
The hospital security is requested to be more tight to avoid such occurrences to happen again in the hospital.
Dr. Oladapo explained: “On Sunday, one of our members was the target of a deliberate, premeditated, planned rage and furious assault by a patient’s relation.
“The doctor was seeing a known Sickle Cell patient in painful crisis at the Emergency Department when the two men accosted him in the consulting room and started beating him up.
“The mother of the patient being seen who tried to intervene was also beaten up in this assault. In the doctor’s attempt to escape, the men chased him down and beat him up.
“The security officers of the hospital intervened and rescued our member, but not before he sustained injuries as well as mental health and esteem.”
