The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Government in an effort to end the ongoing strike.
NARD commenced a five-day warning strike on May 17 to press home its demands after a 14-day ultimatum to the government lapsed.
According to NARD, its National Executive Council will decide on the timelines set in the content of the MoU. Meanwhile, the strike, which commenced on Wednesday, continued on Saturday, with medical services hampered in federal hospitals across the country, with hospitals having to make adjustments to their schedules to accommodate as many patients as possible.
Speaking about the measures employed to cushion the effect of the absence of the resident doctors, the Head of Clinical Services, FMC, Jabi, Dr Joseph Eziechila, said though service delivery was not as it should be, the hospital would not shut down.Eziechila stated, “We had to think out of the box on how to maintain services. Resident doctors are the bedrock of healthcare delivery because they are more in number.
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