Doctors at FUHSO Otukpo Launch Indefinite Strike Over Welfare Woes

Medical doctors at the Federal University of Health Sciences Teaching Hospital, Otukpo (FUHSO), Benue State, have downed tools in a move that has escalated from a short-term protest to an indefinite strike. What began as a one-week halt in October 2024, over deteriorating working conditions and welfare concerns, has now snowballed as grievances remain unresolved.

The striking doctors are demanding urgent improvements to living and working conditions, including better facilities, fair compensation packages, and an immediate halt to further deterioration in health services. Leadership from the medical team issued a firm warning: if their demands are not promptly addressed, they will not hesitate to prolong the strike .

Patients and community members around Otukpo have already begun feeling the impact—elective procedures have been postponed, outpatient services disrupted, and long-term care delayed. With no end in sight, all eyes are on the federal university authorities and Benue State government to meet and resolve the doctors’ demands before the hospital’s ability to serve its community collapses.

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