Mr Omoniyi Olalekan, Chairman, Senior Staff Association, Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital Yaba, says skeletal works are ongoing at the hospital amid the 10-day nationwide #EndBad Governance protest.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that few patients were seen in the clinic compared to the usual crowd on normal days.
Olalekan told NAN that the skeletal nature of work was more prominent on the first day of the protest (yesterday), saying that even some of the hospital staff could not come to work that day.
He explained that a good number of the staff couldn’t come to work on the first day of the protest because there was no vehicle to convey them as commercial vehicular movement was disrupted amid the protest.
According to him, the few patients that are present in the hospital are being attended to at the emergency unit.
“Generally, at Yaba Psychiatric Hospital, there has been a kind of skeletal work since yesterday the protest started.
“Yesterday, most of the staff were not at their duty post, probably because the commercial vehicles (Danfo) were not moving.
“But, today is fairer because at least, staff are on ground to attend to patients.
“However, a lot of patients could not still come for their clinic appointments and the few that came are being attended to at the emergency unit,” Olalekan said.
Olalekan, however, admitted that citizens had the right to protest, advising that they should not allow hoodlums to hijack the protest.
Also commenting, the President of Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) of the hospital, Dr Salau Abiola, said that normalcy was gradually retuning to activities in the hospital.
Abiola said that activities in the hospital appeared normal on Friday compared to Thursday when very few patients including doctors were present in the hospital.
According to him, the first days of protests are usually more serious, saying that the tension is likely to be less within the coming days.(NAN).
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