Doctors vs EFCC: UUTH CMD begs medical unions to suspend strike

Chief Medical Director, CMD, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, UUTH, Prof. Ememabasi Bassey, has made a passionate entreaty to antithetic aesculapian unions successful the authorities to instrumentality to their work posts and connection aesculapian attraction and different services to the people.

Recall that pursuing an altercation betwixt the hospital’s aesculapian unit and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, and different aesculapian unions withdrew their services, alleging unwarranted apprehension and battle of a foremost Cardiologist, Prof. Eyo Ekpe.

Worried by the toll the onslaught enactment has had connected sick patients and different citizens, UUTH CMD, successful a property league astatine the hospital, urged the unions to sheathe their swords adjacent arsenic helium condemned the enactment of the EFCC, which helium said was carried retired by overzealous officials who did not picture what the committee represents. 

He reminded the national leaders that though they are inactive wrong their rights, they should besides retrieve the critically sick patients astatine the Intensive Care Unit, victims of accidents and newborn babies who necessitate urgent aesculapian attention.

In his entreaty the CMD said, “We are appealing to our colleagues and unions to see the hu...