By Donald Iorchir
Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University Abuja Hospital (UATH) Gwagwalada, in the federal Capital Territory (FCT), Dr. Peter Alabi, has appealed to striking medical doctors in the hospital to call off strike for the interest of humanity.
Alabi, who made the appeal while speaking to the newsmen in his office, said “because of the lives involved in the process,” he could not do other than to appeal to his colleagues in the hospital to call off the strike.
He added that if it was a national strike, he would have shown understanding instead of localising the matter, bearing in mind that the management of the hospital had dialogued on the issue.
The CMD said the management had also set up a committee to try to dialogue too, while the chairman of a national body of advisory committee had visited from Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital, to dialogue on how to prevent the strike.
He, however, regretted that all efforts to that effect proved abortive, “even though the dialogue is still ongoing.”
On the issue of the ongoing trauma centre project, the chief medical director also appealed to the federal government to fasten the second phase of the project, saying that “non-completion of the project is drawing the hand of the clock back in the treatment of victims referred to the hospital.”
Earlier, Alabi said out of the three victims brought to the hospital from the General Hospital, Maitama, one of them had died, while two were still receiving treatment.
He added that their medical bills had been sent to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and that they were still expecting their reply.
