Consider Patients’ Condition Before Going On Strike- Obasanjo

-Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo urged Medical Practitioners to consider Patients Condition before going on strike

– My position is that since the care for your patient is a major ethical issue of your profession, abandoning them to go on strike is even more unethical

– You should rather form another way to express your displeasure and not doing so at the expense of your patients

Ex- Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo has urged medical practitioners at the opening ceremony of the National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMD) National Executive Council meeting in Abeokuta,to consider their patients’ conditions before going on strike.

The Special Assistant on Media to the former president, Kehinde Akinyemi made the statement on Friday.

He said that Obasanjo, who was the Father of the Day at the occasion, urged the practitioners to take patients’ condition more seriously in their demand for a better welfare.

“A major issue that I always want to talk about whenever I am in your midst, which I told you when you came to visit is the issue of going on strike anytime you want to show your displeasure particularly, government doctors.

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“My position is that since the care for your patient is a major ethical issue of your profession, abandoning them to go on strike is even more unethical.

“You should rather form another way to express your displeasure and not doing so at the expense of your patients,” Obasanjo said.