The strike action embarked on by Association of Resident Doctors, Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba Lagos has entered its fourth week.

The doctors, who began the action on July 31, are protesting what they called “severe lack of doctors to provide seamless delivery of mental health services

The association’s Executive Committee reviewed the action on August 19 following key stakeholders’ intervention.

After deliberations, the resident doctors, in a statement on Wednesday, resolved to continue with the strike.

They are demanding “standard mental health care for our clients and quality work experience for our overworked doctors”.

They vowed the strike would continue “until such a time the hospital management deems it fit to meet our singular demand”.

The statement reads: “The hospital management is insensitive to the plight of over 535 in-patients and 220 outpatients daily who now receive suboptimal, if not pernicious, mental health service in the 20 days that this industrial action has been allowed to fester without goal-directed interventions

“The hospital management has blatantly refused to replace the annual exit of resident doctors for the past four years.
"Instead, they have let patient load and clinical work increase significantly for hapless resident doctors whose health and academic pursuits have suffered irreparably.

“In light of the above, the hospital management’s insistence on employing only five locum doctors is highly provocative of our demands.

“It hardly improves the status quo which already puts overworked resident doctors at the brink of academic failure, health challenges and malpractice suits.”

Vowing to continue with the strike until their demand is met, they urged President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene.

“To this end, we call on Nigerian citizens and the Presidency under the leadership of President Buhari to prevail on the hospital management to do the needful in line with the Next Level Agenda of this administration,” the statemenservices."

https://thenationonlineng.net/yaba-psychiatric-doctors-strike-enters-fourth-week/

Government should wade in, we have a lot of mad men/women walking on the streets already.

Ah, make dis people no vex release mad people for streets O, e no go funny, Govt mbok sé mkpo bangha mkpo amí,

No wonder Nairaland full with senseless comments these days... Many are mad and many of dem are roaming nairaland

Nobody will listen to them. Let them Release the mad men and women in their care on the streets of Lagos

Wait o where are the mad patient?

Few mad people in the street, the rest are at their home

Mad people

No wonder Mad people don plenty for Yaba lately especially doz guys selling Jean's nd Cutton dem go almost wan tear ur cloth

Why sit on the floor to prove strike? Yaba left people sef..



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Are U saying that God is not fair to U?

Is fear the boasting giant in your life?

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Come to Jesus, He will save U.

NA WA FOR THIS COUNTRY CALLED NIGERIA

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No wonder we've had an upsurge of mad comments these past few weeks.


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No wonder many wailers are on next level madness

Abeg make lagos state do something o

Is like the madness has started affecting them too

Mad patients right now

Nbote:
No wonder Nairaland full with senseless comments these days... Many are mad and many of dem are roaming nairaland

lol

okkkaaayyy, na why mad people just booku for street. I seeeee

No wonder I saw two mad men, one was shouting "you're mad" and the other one was shouting "this madness must stop"

Just release 50 mad people in front of Government house..... Then after temple run with government house officials, they will listen to you guys

They should please reconsider for the sake of the people living around there

No wonder mad people come boku for street and nairaland.

So those doctors sef escape enter town...

Lord have mercy....

Please the government should attend to these doctors.... It's not easy working with such patients.


The hazard allowance paid to these psychiatric hospital doctors and nurses are nothing to write home about...

Na to dey observe people for road nw o.. make person no go sit beside mad person for bus o.

Emmaco4:
Just release 50 mad people in front of Government house..... Then after temple run with government house officials, they will listen to you guys

Wao

I think one of the Yaba-left students is roaming on Nairaland already.

He is reading this now....lol

nigeria chai

asatemple:
They should please reconsider for the sake of the people living around there

Lol