Resident doctors at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), on Monday announced that they are not participating in the ongoing nationwide strike called by the national body of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).
National President of the NMA, Dr. Francis Faduyile had announced an indefinite strike action for all medical doctors in public hospitals across the country to press the need for the Federal Government to implement their demands.
However, doctors in Rivers especially, those in UPTH have assured that they aren’t going anywhere. They rather urged the Federal Government to facilitate the processes to meeting the demands of resident doctors in the nation, as already been outlined to it.The President of the Association of Resident Doctors, UPTH chapter, Dr.
He said: “We have looked at the issue of the present strike holistically and we have decided that for now, we will not be embarking on the nationwide strike as a local chapter and the reason has to do with the fact that we understand that the leadership of the NMA are negotiating on modalities to actualise some of those demands.
“It should also be on the order that the demands made by Resident doctors, we understand them and we fully agree with them, however, when putting everything together, we have seen that it won’t be in the best interest of the general population especially, Rivers people if we embark on this strike.”
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