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The National Association of Resident Doctors has said that the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria does not have the legal right to bar trainee doctors from joining the union or industrial action during their one-year internship.
The association insisted that the trainee doctors remain key stakeholders in NARD.
The Chairman of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Prof. Abba Hassan, had during the swearing-in of new trainee doctors, warned them against participating in industrial actions.
The MDCN chairman maintained that house officer engaging in industrial action “is an illegal act which will not be further tolerated.”
EDITORIAL: The Urgency of Tackling Nigeria’s Second Wave of COVID-19 7 min read
Without a strong, coordinated, strategic and people-centred response, we can only expect to see escalating numbers of avoidable fast-filled hospital bed spaces and rapidly dug-up graves because of this virus.
Over the past seven days, the number of new cases of COVID-19 has ranged between nine hundred and sixty four and just under two thousand cases per day, with more than 60 per cent of the states in the country recording sharply rising numbers of cases daily. Whereas these statistics could easily be chalked up solely to the increased testing capability and widened laboratory coverage that have enhanced the access to COVID-19 tests of communities previously unable to gain such access, unfortunately, with the rising numbers of cases, there are regrettably more frequent reports of case severity and deaths.
Total Number Discharged – 150,205
Total Deaths – 2,041
Total Tests Carried out – 1,727,467
According to the NCDC, the 113 new cases are reported from 11 states- Lagos (32), Abia (16), Ebonyi (24), Abuja (10), Bayelsa (6), Rivers (6), Bauchi (5), Jigawa (4), Oyo (3), Akwa Ibom (3), Osun (
Meanwhile, the latest numbers bring Lagos state total confirmed cases to 57,501, followed by Abuja (19,603), Plateau (9,019), Kaduna (8,908), Rivers (6,899), Oyo (6,835), Edo (4,873), Ogun (4,613), Kano (3,897), Ondo (3,168), Kwara (3,070), Delta (2,599), Osun (2,522), Nasarawa (2,318), Enugu (2,221), Katsina (2,082), Gombe (2,030), Ebonyi (1,993), Anambra (1,909), Akwa Ibom (1,759), and Abia (1,649).
Imo State has recorded 1,642 cases, Bauchi (1,516), Borno (1,327), Benue (1,188), Adamawa (942), Niger (930), Taraba (910), Ekiti (857), Bayelsa (863), Sokoto (773), Jigawa (501), Kebbi (438), Cross River (357), Yobe (293), Zamfara (231), while Kogi state has recorded 5 cases only.
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