Government-owned medical facilities across the country are complying with the directive of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) to embark on a nationwide indefinite strike by limiting services provided to emergency cases alone.
At Wuse District Hospital, Abuja Municipal Area Council, patients who visited in the early hours of Monday were prohibited from entering the facility as the workers kept reiterating that they were on strike.
A pregnant patient, who identified herself simply as Regina, who visited the hospital early Monday morning for antenatal, had to stay back in the hospital until it was past 2 p.m., a situation which she described as unusual.
