Patient’s relative stabs lab scientist in Ogun FMC, health workers declare warning strike

Health workers astatine the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Abeokuta, person embarked connected a 72-hour informing onslaught pursuing the alleged stabbing of a aesculapian laboratory idiosyncratic by a patient’s comparative wrong the hospital.

The strike, declared by the Joint Action Committee, JAC, of the hospital, commenced astatine 11 a.m. connected Monday and is expected to extremity astatine 8 a.m. connected Thursday, October 15.

The JAC, comprises members of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, the Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research and Allied Institutions, SSAUTHRIAI, the Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals, NUAHP, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU.

In a missive dated October 12, 2026, and addressed to the Medical Director, the unions identified the unfortunate arsenic Mr Lawal Toheeb Olasunkanmi, a aesculapian laboratory scientist.

A colleague, Comrade Oladejo Abiodun, said helium received a distress telephone astatine astir 6:30 p.m. connected Sunday that a idiosyncratic connected work had been stabb...