The striking National Association of Government General and Medical and Dental Practitioners in Ekiti State has accused the state government of paying lip service to delivering the desired healthcare services to the people of state.

The association made the assertion in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman, Dr. KOLAWOLE ADENIYI and Secretary, Dr. TOYESE ADELEYE, which was made available to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.

The doctors, who accused the Governor KAYODE FAYEMI-led administration of taking the health issues of the people of the state with frivolous levity, described a recent statement by the state’s Commissioner for Information, MUYIWA OLUMILUA, as uncompassionate.

The resident doctors said that the government had only exposed its attempt to strangulate grassroots healthcare, hence its refusal to take serious the two fundamental healthcare strata in the state.

The body maintained that as leaders and stakeholders in the primary and secondary health projects, its members would remain proactive and would not be silent as regard the impending doom in the state’s healthcare system.