Why we embarked on three-day warning strike – UCH resident doctors

The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, has said its resolve to embark on a three-day warning strike was informed by an alleged assault on one of its members by a relative of a patient in their facility.

Resident doctors at the health institution, under the aegis of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), began a three-day warning strike on Thursday.

In a statement by the chairperson and secretary of the UCH ARD, John Oladapo and Sunday Adegbite, respectively, on Thursday, the association maintained that assault on any of its members will no longer be tolerated.