The leadership of the National Association of Resident Doctors, Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, EKSUTH, Ado-Ekiti, has threatened to embark on industrial action following an attack on two doctors by students involved in an accident.
Speaking with journalists in Ado-Ekiti yesterday, the President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, EKSUTH Branch, Dr Ayodeji Olatayo, described the act as barbaric and uncalled for, urging the Ekiti State Government to fish out the perpetrators before six o’clock tomorrow or face industrial action.
He noted that there was a need for patients’ relatives to respect health workers, stating that such behaviour would no longer be tolerated.
Also, the former president of the Association and chairman of the EKSUTH Inter-Allied Forum, Dr Adeyemi Famous, called for the enactment of a law that would criminalise attacks on health workers.
According to him, it is high time patients and their relatives stopped attacking doctors.
He said, “Our members were also attacked some weeks ago; there is a need for the Ekiti State House of Assembly to put in place laws to make those found in such acts pay for their actions.”
He called on security agents to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators to serve as a deterrent to others, adding that the union would not watch and allow its members to be rubbished.
The students, who had an accident on Friday, were rushed to the Accident and Emergency Department of the hospital, but threw caution to the wind and assaulted two doctors, leaving them injured because they were not properly attended to.
