Resident Doctors Begin Strike

The relative peace in the health sector appears to be shaky as the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) begins their National strike today.

Speaking on recurrent crisis in the nation’s health sector, especially among health professionals, NARD blamed non-medical practitioners.

The organisation argued that many non-doctors who had wanted to become doctors failed university admission test set by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and eventually accepted to study other health-related programmes adjudged by the public to be lower in value than Medicine.

He stressed that when such people graduate and find themselves in the working environment with doctors, they aspire to lord themselves over the doctors.

The association directed its members across public hospitals in the country to suspend services.

As NARD said it is going on a five-day strike to pressurize government to meet its demands, hospitals are to remain shut till next week Monday.

The President of NARD, Dr Muhammad Askira, stated these on Tuesday, while reading to journalists the outcome of its communique issued at the end of the association’s Extra-Ordinary National Executive Council Meeting in Abuja, co-signed by the Secretary-General of NARD, Dr. Ibrahim Kuburi and Publicity/Social Secretary, Dr. Eugene Ahuruezenma.