Nigerian doctors commence nationwide strike amid COVID-19 pandemic
The doctors were urged to make alternative arrangements for the care of patients.
It added that no service of any kind, “be it emergency, care at COVID-19 isolation and treatment centres shall be exempted”.NARD listed its demands as provision of grossly inadequate appropriate Personal Protective Equipment for all health care workers; reversal of the disengagement of all 26 resident doctors in Jos University Teaching Hospital, and the payment of all salaries owed them.
Others are implementation of the Medical Residency Training Act in all federal and state hospitals and pay parity among doctors of equal cadre; implementation of the revised hazard allowance and payment of the COVID-19 inducement allowance as agreed with the government.
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