JUTH doctors’ embark on strike

The Resident Doctors of the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) have joined their counterparts nationwide to down tools as activities of the hospital are paralysed, leaving only few consultants and staff of the hospital to render skeletal services to the patients.

Even before yesterday’s national strike, JUTH resident doctors have been on strike for month because of internal wranglings.

The strike is now seen as a plus for the resident doctors of JUTH who have been on strike owing to the crisis with the management.

A patient at the hospital, who simply referred to himself as Pam, told The Guardian that he would have to relocate if at the end of the day, the doctors are still adamant.

Private hospitals like Our Ladies of Apostle (OLA) Hospital, Bingham University Teaching Hospital, Sauki Hospital all in Jos, are busy treating patients who are storming there in droves.