Lagos Doctors Resume

Lagos State public hospitals, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria have come alive again after a month of total paralysis as doctors resumed worked.

In several hospitals visited in the Lagos metropolis, thousands of jubilant patients were seen waiting for doctors to attend to them.

At the Igando General Hospital, the doctors have fully resumed for work while lots of patients thronged the hospitals to be attended to.

The car park was filled with cars, an indication that activities have fully picked up at the hospital after a month of drabness.

At the Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital, P.M.NEWS gathered that the doctors have resumed fully while the number of patients have increased.

The same goes for the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, as the doctors have resumed.

Our reporter said that many patients did not visit the hospital but that some patients were seen being attended to.

More patients have also gone to the General Hospital, Lagos to be attended to as doctors have fully resumed work.

The same goes for the Island Maternity as activities have picked up. Doctors were on ground to attend to patients.

At Surulere General Hospital, doctors were seen attending to patients while more patients had also visited to hospital to be attended to.

The Orile-Agege General Hospital bubble with to life after a long time as doctors began attending to patients very early in the morning today.

There was jubilation as patients saw the doctors coming into the hospital to attend to them.

Large crowd of patients had besieged the hospital very early in the day.

Patients who spoke with P.M.NEWS said they were overjoyed that the feud between the government and the doctors had at last come to an end.

Two patients, Eteredhe Roland and Rachael Osarogiagba said they were overjoyed that the doctors had resumed as they were sure that they would soon be attended to.

Another patient, Oladimeji Oluwaseun also expressed happiness over the resumption to work by the doctors.

According to Lateef Olatiwo, it was good that the old doctors had resumed, saying that the new ones employed by the government lacked the needed experience. Christiana Obi said there were now more doctors to attend to the patients and to save more lives.

The doctors, under the aegies of Medical Guild called off their strike yesterday after the state government recalled 788 of them sacked earlier for partaking in a warning strike.

—Kazeem Ugbodaga & Yisa Jamiu