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By Chioma Obinna
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, convened an extraordinary National Executive Council meeting on April 7, 2021 to review their ongoing strike and the offers of the Federal Government so far.
The NEC, attended by over 100 members from more than 60 centers across the country via zoom after deliberations, voted unanimously that the “total and indefinite strike”, which started on April 1, be continued until the federal and state governments meet their demands.
Sunday Vanguard spoke with the National President of NARD, Dr Okhuaihesuyi Uyilawa, who said that, despite efforts of the national officers of NARD to ensure that the Federal Government does the needful to prevent the strike, government has continued in their insincerity of promises hence the current stalemate.
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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.