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Patients provide cotton wool, methylated spirit —ABUTH doctors

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The National Association of Resident Doctors, Ahmadu Bello University Hospital, has lamented the high level of rot in the tertiary healthcare institution, saying patients now provide cotton wool and methylated spirit for their treatment.

Members of the association, who lodged their complaints with the Senate on Friday, said they had held a week’s protest and would embark on a three-day warning strike on Monday, after which an indefinite strike would hold should the management of the hospital fail to respond.

“As simple as cotton wool and methylated spirit are, we ask patients to provide. I think this is the height of it,” President of NARD, ABUTH chapter, Dr. Waziri Aliyu, told the Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Lanre Tejuoso, who was accompanied by member of the Senate representing Kaduna-Central Senatorial District, Senator Shehu Sani.

He also lamented the sacking of doctors by the management, poor remuneration, non-availability of accommodation for staff who should be resident, insecurity and poor working environment in the hospital.

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He also decried the non-availability of equipment, saying the MRI machine in the hospital had been faulty for 46 months, while patients were being referred to other hospitals.

In his response, Tejuoso noted that the problems were not peculiar to ABUTH, and that many public health care institutions bear the same burden.

He urged the doctors to pay more attention to how monies allocated to ABUTH are being spent, instead of embarking on strike. He also urged them to file a comprehensive report of their grievances to the Senate.

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