Journalist loses wife to doctors’ strike

The ongoing strike embarked upon by doctors 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, said the woman took ill on Wednesday night, but died at Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomosho, Oyo State, where she was referred to by a doctor in Ilorin due to the strike.

The deceased’s body will be buried on Saturday.

In a statement on Friday in Ilorin, the Chairman of the Kwara State Correspondents Chapel, Mr. Layi Olanrewaju and Secretary,   Alhaji Biola Azeez, called on the Federal Government and the doctors to resolve the impasse threatening the nation’s health sector. The statement read, “If the doctors were on duty, the death would have been avoided.

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

“We believe that the government and the doctors should sit down and agree to end this unnecessary strike that has led to a number of avoidable deaths. We will like to tell the doctors that no welfare package is worth the life of a patient.”