Members of the Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital in Kwara State have called off the strike action embarked upon in response to the assault on a female doctor by the father of a two-year-old boy who died while receiving treatment at the Paediatrics Emergency Department of the health facility on Wednesday.
DAILY POST gathered on Friday that the strike action was called off following the intervention of concerned stakeholders who waded into the incident.
Medical doctors at the health facility had embarked on a five-day strike to protest the assault on one of their female colleagues by Emmanuel Olatunji, the father of the two-year-old boy who died while undergoing treatment at the hospital on Wednesday.
The father of the deceased child, who returned to the hospital two hours after leaving the child with the mother, allegedly assaulted the female doctor, who had provided the admission pack from her own pocket to facilitate the child’s treatment in his absence.
Several patients who required medical attention at the hospital on Thursday and Friday went home disappointed as they were not attended to due to the strike action.
Reacting to the development, the management of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) on Friday condemned in strong terms the physical assault on one of the hospital’s medical doctors by a relative of a patient.
The management, in a statement issued in Ilorin on Friday by the hospital’s Head of Corporate Affairs, Abiodun Fagbemi, said, “It places
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