National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP) have lamented the poor state of health facilities and infrastructure in the state General Hospitals.
The doctors who spoke in Abeokuta yesterday also expressed dissatisfaction with acute shortage of medical and health personnel.
The Chairman of the State chapter of the association, Dr. Oladunni Adetola, who spoke to journalists alleged that 95 per cent of the hospitals do not have functioning X-ray machines, Oxygen and Oxygen concentrators, suctioning machines and ambulances for emergency services.
He warned that if the government did not take immediate steps to effect positive change within the next one month, they would embark on an indefinite strike.
He said doctors have resolved to withdraw their call duty service “from August 2017 and then total withdrawal of service by September,” if their demands are not addressed.
But the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Babatunde Ipaye, assured that the government would take steps to reverse the situation, ascribing the situation to the economic recession.
Adetola said the last time the state government employed health workers for the General hospitals was in 2013.
