The strike by the Joint Heath Sector Union of the Federal Medical Centres across the country has assumed an alarming dimension in Delta State.
As the strike entered its seventh day on Tuesday, families of sick ones have started moving them to private hospitals away from the FMC in Asaba, the state capital.
The development made JOHESU to step up a clarion call on community and opinion leaders to prevail on the Federal Government to be law abiding in order to end the strike.
The union’s Chairman in FMC, Asaba, Comrade Tony Asiodu, said although doctors refused to join them in the strike, all sections of the hospital had been crippled by the strike.
Asiodu said a visit to the hospital for treatment would reveal how the profession was gradually being brought to disrepute by rigidity on the part of the Federal Government.
He wondered why President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, which prides itself high on the rule of law, failed to adhere to a court order.
According to him, it is important that the Minister of Health should obey the judgement promptly to save the nation’s health sector from ruins, even as he called on members of JOHESU to remain resolute in their demand, while awaiting further directive from the national leadership of the body.
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