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FG meets resident doctors after eight-day strike today
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The National President, National Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige
Sunday Aborisade, Adelani and Adepegba
Published 4:26 am
The Federal Government and the National Association of Resident Doctors will on Friday (today) hold a meeting to address the ongoing strike embarked upon by the doctors.
The Ministry of Labour and Employment spokesman, Charles Akpan, disclosed this in an invite to journalists on Thursday.
He said the parley which would hold at the ministry, will be chaired by the Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, and attended by resident doctors and representatives of the Federal Government.
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FOLLOWING the sustained imbroglio between it and the government, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) embarked on an indefinite strike last week. Consequently, according to reports in the media, hospitals across the country are teeming with patients who have been left unattended to by the consultant doctors. In all the teaching hospitals nationwide, compliance with the strike declared by the leadership of the NARD has been ruthlessly enforced and thousands of patients have been groaning. As a matter of fact, many have returned home without any treatment. Matters have also been made worse by the fact that President Muhammadu Buhari is currently on medical leave in the United Kingdom. How indeed could the president be abroad, looking for what is denied the citizenry at home?
Strike continues as resident doctors insist demands not met today.ng - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from today.ng Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Patients lament as resident doctors’ strike persists
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By Sola Ogundipe & Gabriel Olawale
Patients have continued to bear the brunt of the strike called by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, the body of medical doctors that constitute 70 percent of doctors in government and state-owned hospitals in Nigeria.
As the strike entered the eighth day yesterday, public hospitals that are normally beehive of activities have become a ghost town.
In Lagos, doctors in the state government hospitals are in total compliance with the directive of the national NARD to join the ongoing strike.
When Vanguard visited some of the affected hospitals in Lagos on Thursday, the wards were scantily occupied by patients, who were being attended to by consultants, nurses, and midwives.