Journalist loses wife to doctors’ strike

The perpetual strike embarked upon by medicos in public hospital across the country has claimed the life of the wife of the Kwara State Correspondent of National Trumpet, Mrs. Christiana Akinpelu.

The deceased’s husband, Mr. Kehinde Akinpelu, verbalized the woman took ill on Wednesday night, but died at Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomosho, Oyo State, where she was referred to by a medico in Ilorin due to the strike.

The deceased’s body will be buried on Saturday.

In a verbal expression on Friday in Ilorin, the Chairman of the Kwara State Correspondents Chapel, Mr. Layi Olanrewaju and Secretary,   Alhaji Biola Azeez, called on the Federal Regime and the medicos to resolve the impasse threatening the nation’s health sector. The verbal expression read, “If the medicos were on obligation, the death would have been evaded.

“Even the dispensable stress the deceased went through was avoidable in an environment with quality health personnel.

“We believe that the regime and the medicos should sit down and accede to culminate this nonessential strike that has led to a number of avoidable deaths. We will relish to tell the medicos that no welfare package is worth the life of a patient.”