Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has told medical practitioners that it is unethical to abandon their patients and go on strike.
Speaking at the opening National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners, adding that the doctors should rather find another way of showing their displeasure, rather than punishing the patients.
Kehinde Akinyemi, the Spokesman to the Former President, said Obasanjo who was the father of the day, urged doctors to take patients condition more important in their quest 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”, Obasanjo said.
“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 fashion another way to show your displeasure and not doing so at the expense of your patients.
“We used to have something like that in the past during the Western region. I don’t know whether we still have it.
“If we don’t, maybe this is time to return to it or have something near it, which will bring efficiency and affordability to our drug chain system”.
