Resident Doctors and workers of Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, EKSUTH have suspended the industrial action.
The workers embarked on strike action following the attack on them by some hoodlums on Monday in Ado Ekiti.
The commissioner of police had earlier ordered a thorough investigation into the attack by yet to be yet-to-be-identified youth gang.
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Sunday Abutu said the commissioner met with both parties involved in the crisis and the police are now on trial for those fingered to be responsible for the attack.
The hoodlums, suspected to be members of a drivers’ union, angered by the death of a patient, who was the father to one of their members, had allegedly descended on doctors and other hospital workers. They vandalised the Accident and Emergency Unit of EKSUTH, and forcibly took away the corpse.
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In the ensuing melee, workers of health institutions including members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) decided to down tools immediately, demanding the arrest and prosecution of the culprits.
The Chief Medical Director, CMD of EKSUTH, Professor Kayode Olabanji who announced the suspension of a strike called on the police and security agencies to fish out those behind the attack on the university teaching hospital’s workers.
