UCH doctors on strike over assault, demand security upgrade
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Doctors at University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan on Wednesday began a strike lasting three days over an assault on a fellow doctor by relatives of a patient.
The strike was called by the UCH branch of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), whose President John Oladapo said they want a public apology from those who assaulted their colleague and inflicted injuries on him on March 3.
Oladapo issued a statement which urged the hospital to improve its security architecture to avoid a future occurrence of the incident.
“On Sunday, one of our members was the target of a deliberate, premeditated, planned rage and furious assault by a patient’s relation,” he said.
“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.”
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