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Nigeria: NMAs 21-Day Ultimatum Violates MoU, Says Govt
This Day, 30 August 2021
The federal government has described the 21-day ultimatum issued by the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) as a negation of the Memoradum of Understanding (MoU) it signed at the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Court Refuses to Stop Resident Doctors' Strike
Premium Times, 19 August 2021
The judge says he cannot order the resident doctors to stop their strike without hearing them. Read more »
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Nigeria: Strike - Senior Nigerian Doctors, Others Lament Heavy Workload As Patients Groan
Premium Times, 19 August 2021
About four doctors broke down last weekend due to stress. Read more »
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Nigeria: Doctors' Strike - Nigerian Government Insists On 'No-Work, No-Pay'
Premium Times, 13 August 2021
If the doctors fail to heed to the appeal, the government will enforce the International Labour Organization's a policy of 'No work, No pay.' Read more »
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Niger: Nigerian Doctors' Strike Disrupts Health System Amid Pandemic
VOA, 12 August 2021
Doctors in Nigeria are on strike over unpaid salaries and poor benefits. But the strike by some 40% of the country's medical workforce comes amid a fresh wave of coronavirus… Read more »
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Nigeria: Govt Appeals to Striking Doctors to Continue Negotiation
Premium Times, 4 August 2021
"My appeal is that they return to the negotiating table so that whatever outstanding issues can be sorted out." Read more »
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Nigeria: As Buhari Receives Medical Care Abroad, Doctors' Strike Takes Toll On Hospitals
Premium Times, 3 August 2021
Most of the hospitals visited by our reporters only operated at half capacities and the situation could begin to degenerate further, from Tuesday. Read more »
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Nigeria: Kaduna Hospitals Shun Strike Action
Daily Trust, 3 August 2021
The Kaduna State Resident Doctors in Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital shunned the strike action embarked by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) over an unfulfilled… Read more »
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Nigeria: Strike - Federal Govt Appeals to Doctors' Association to Return to Negotiating Table
Vanguard, 3 August 2021
The Minister of State for Health, Dr Olurunnimbe Mamora, has appealed to the leadership of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to return to the negotiating table to… Read more »
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Nigeria: Medical Services Crippled, Patients Stranded As Resident Doctors Down Tools
Daily Trust, 3 August 2021
Patients of public hospitals across the country were left stranded on Monday as members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) downed tools following the failure of… Read more »
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Nigeria: Govt Threatens to Sanction Striking Doctors
This Day, 3 August 2021
The federal government has warned that House Officers on mandatory two-year housemanship training that embark on strike would be made to repeat the posting without remuneration.… Read more »
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Nigeria: Covid-19 - As Nigerian Doctors Down Tools, Country Confirms 407 New Infections
Premium Times, 2 August 2021
The 407 new cases have raised Nigeria's total infection to 174,315. Read more »
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Nigeria: Resident Doctors Begin Strike Today
Leadership, 2 August 2021
Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has said it is going ahead with its planned nationwide indefinite strike by 8 00am today till its demands are met by the federal… Read more »
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Nigeria: Don't Join Strike, Lagos Begs Doctors
Daily Trust, 2 August 2021
Lagos State Government has appealed to the state's chapters of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) and Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) not to join the nationwide… Read more »