Nigeria: UBTH turns back patients as doctors join protest strike

As members of the National Association Resident Doctors (NARD), the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), joined their counterparts across the country to embark on a warning strike, scores of patients who visited the hospital on Monday were turned back.

Many of the patients who were turned back were those who had Monday as the date of their appointment with their doctors, with many of them travelling to Benin from different locations within and outside Edo State.

The ARD,…