Patients at the Specialist Hospital, Gombe, have been evacuated from the hospital following the nationwide strike against the removal of fuel subsidy.
A visit to the hospital by some reporters on Monday shows that relatives of patients have?started evacuating their relatives around 9.30 a.m.
According to them, they are evacuating them following the absence of nurses and midwives to attend to them.
Malam Mohammed Adamu, a relation of?one of the patients, said his patient was in a critical condition without medical attention.
He said that the patient had an accident early Monday morning and was hospitalised at the casualty ward without any attention.
Another patient's relative, Malam Sanusi Umar, expressed concern over?the strike, saying it was against the wishes of the common man.
Some patients receiving Anti-Retroviral drugs said they usually received their drugs on?Monday but could not access the medication?because of the strike.?
The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the hospital, Dr James Mahdi, said the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) did not join the strike.
According to him, the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) and Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria have not?joined because they are?not members of NLC.
Mahdi?said that members of the three associations could not function without the nurses and midwives because they were the majority in the hospital.
“It was against this backdrop that we advised the patients' relatives to evacuate their patients from the hospital and look for proper care elsewhere.
At the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Gombe, Malam Haruna ?Abdulrasheed, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the hospital, said ?as at 9.30 a.m., the nurses and midwives in the hospital were holding a meeting.
According to him,?the outcome of the meeting will determine whether they will join the strike or not.
He said that the NMA did not join the strike and?would?monitor the situation up till Friday.
Abdulrasheed said?the National Union of Health Workers at the centre had joined the strike while patients remained in the hospital.
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