Strike: Nigeria may lose more lives – Health minister begs doctors
He expressed fear that this is a very trying time for Nigeria with the COVID-19 pandemic and appealed to resident doctors to show empathy by calling off the strike.
He said “We held a meeting with the House Committee Chairman on Health. The National Association of Resident Doctors were also in attendance. At that meeting, they had not yet declared their position on the strike.“But it was from the meeting that we were able to clarify many of the issues that they have been raising.
“But we are very certain that the issues that were raised will be attended to, even though some of them are not very new and some of them date back to a few years ago. Some of them have nothing to do with COVID-19, but have to do with Residency Training Programs. They are all being attended to. There are series of demands and some of them are not current.”The minister added that demands with respect to the personal protective equipment have been dealt with that.
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