The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, has begun a three-day strike over an alleged assault on one of their members on Sunday by relatives of a patient in the hospital.
UCH ARD President, Dr. John Oladapo, in a statement said the doctors are demanding public apology from the people who assaulted their member.
Oladapo urged the hospital to improve its security architecture in order to avoid a reoccurrence.
“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.”
Oladapo said the mother of the patient being seen, who tried to intervene, was also beaten up in this assault.
He stated that 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.”
