At the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) in Ikeja, there was full compliance as doctors shunned their duty posts, leaving many patients stranded.
Similar scenarios played out in other state-owned hospitals, as doctors in the employ of Lagos State heeded the Guild’s directive.
Although doctors on COVID-19 assignment were exempted from the strike, all the 26 general hospitals and 256 public healthcare centres owned by the state were inactive.
At a briefing to announce the warning strike, chairman of the Guild, Dr. Oluwajimi Sodipo, said it was resolved at an emergency congress held on June 27 to extend the previous 21-day ultimatum given to the state government by two more weeks.
He listed some of the unresolved demands to include wage disparity between the doctors employed by the federal and the Lagos State and the failure to pay them COVID-19 hazard and inducement allowances, among others.