Resident doctors down tools at OOUTH over assault of female house officer

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, connected Tuesday directed its members astatine the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, OOUTH, to instantly down tools implicit the battle of a pistillate location serviceman astatine the facility.

The nationalist enforcement officers of the relation condemned the attack, which occurred astatine the Accident and Emergency portion of the infirmary aft the decease of a patient.

NARD claimed the young doc was singled retired and assaulted by astir 7 men, alleged to beryllium students of Gateway ICT Polytechnic, Saapade, aft being identified arsenic 1 of the squad members who attended to the deceased patient.

The doctors, successful a connection signed by their President, Dr Mohammad Usman Suleiman, connected Tuesday, said the battle was not lone unacceptable but intolerable.
Usman described the incidental arsenic shocking and barbaric, saying it was a gross usurpation of quality dignity and a nonstop menace to the information of healthcare workers.

“Hospitals are sanctuaries of healing, not battlegrounds of violence. It is profoundly disturbing that doctors, who proceed to render selfless work nether highly challenging conditions, including delayed remuneration and overwhelming workloads,...