Kwara State journalist’s wife has become one of the victims of the nationwide strike launched by doctors on July 1. .

The aggrieved National Trumper correspondent Kehinde
Akinpelu narrated to Punch that his 43-year-old wife was
admitted to Bowen University Teaching Hospital and
then referred to Ilorin for some tests because of the
strike. Despite the fact they managed to come back to
BUTH with test results, the woman eventually passed
away.

The Kwara State Correspondents Chapel in a statement
released Friday blamed the strike for the woman's death:
"If the doctors were on duty at UITH, there wouldn't
have been any reason to be sending this young family
back and forth and the precious time wasted travelling
between Ogbomosho and Ilorin could have been devoted
to saving her life."

The group urged the government and the medical
personnel to end the "unnecessary strike" which causes
sufferings of innocent patients. They also criticized the
doctors saying that "no welfare package is worth the life
of a single patient" and urged them to negotiate for the
improvement of their working conditions not at the
expense of peoples' lives.

It would be recalled that two weeks before the strike
commencement, doctors all over the country issued an
ultimatum urging the government to consider their
lingering demands, one of which is the payment issue.