Resident Doctors at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital in Ondo state have embarked on a two-day strike in protest of an assault on one of them by a patient’s son.
The doctor, a medical officer at the hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department, was assaulted while on duty.
The incident was condemned as savage by the doctors who conducted peaceful protests in Ondo and Akure at the same time.
They called on the state government to provide adequate security in the hospital premises to prevent a repeat of such ugly incident.
One of the doctors, Ibidapo Bolayemi, said the hospital is understaffed, urging the state government to employ more doctors.
According to her, over 100 doctors have left the hospital, leaving less than 45 doctors with the burden to deliver.
