House Committee On Health Appeals To Doctors To Call Off Strike

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The Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Health, Pascal Obi, has appealed to the striking resident doctors and the Federal Government to reach a consensus to end the eight-week-old strike.

The Committee Chairman who made this appeal during their oversight visit to federal health institutions in Lagos Monday called for a review of corporate social responsibility done by multinational companies to improve health care delivery services in Nigeria.

The House Committee on health was charged with the responsibility of exercising oversight function on all Federal Government health institutions in the country who visited Lagos State on a fact-finding mission.

This is to ensure that budgetary provisions appropriated to the health institutions are effectively utilized for the purpose it is meant.

During the visit, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi Araba was their first point of call where journalists took the federal legislators on the ongoing resident doctors strike now at its 8th week.

The strike by resident doctors according to the Chief Medical Director LUTH, Chris Bode, is a major cause for worry for everyone including the patients causing disruption in healthcare delivery services.

In finding lasting solutions to this impasse, the visitors unanimously agreed to review the activities of multinational companies operating in the country to get their maximum input.

Other institutions visited by the committee members include the National Orthopaedic Hospital Igbobi as well as the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Yaba.