The resident doctors at the University College Hospital in Ibadan have initiated a three-day work stoppage following an incident where a doctor was reportedly attacked by a patient’s family members.
The president of the hospital’s Association of Resident Doctors, Dr. John Oladapo, issued a statement calling for a formal apology from the assailants who injured their colleague last Sunday.
Dr. Oladapo has also called for enhancements to the hospital’s security measures to prevent similar incidents in the future.
According to him: “On Sunday, one of our members was the target of a deliberate, premeditated, planned rage and furious assault by a patient’s relation.
“The doctor was seeing a known Sickle Cell patient in painful crisis at the Emergency Department when the two men accosted him in the consulting room and started beating him up.
“The mother of the patient being seen who tried to intervene was also beaten up in this assault. In the doctor’s attempt to escape, the men chased him down and beat him up.
“The security officers of the hospital intervened and rescued our member but not before he sustained injuries as well as mental health and esteem.”
