Nigerian doctors stage nationwide strike
Danjuma Abdullahi
Press TV, Abuja
Most government hospitals have remained largely empty because of a nationwide strike action by resident doctors who constitute a large percentage of medical doctors in government hospitals in Nigeria.
Consultancy rooms have remained empty because of the absence of medical doctors to attend to patients. Doctor’s union officials said they are tired of the government failing to live up to its promises of settling their salaries and other benefits on time.
Representatives of the Nigerian government met with labor leaders behind closed-door in a last-minute effort to avert the strike, but apparently the meeting ended in a deadlock. The government appealed to the doctors to consider the damage their withdrawal of services will cause to Nigeria’s health system.
But the resident doctors said the government should keep its several promises. This strike is coming at a challenging period especially with the Covid-19 pandemic, with only about eight hundred thousand Nigerians vaccinated in a country with a population of close to two hundred million.
Nigeria has one hundred and sixty three thousand cases, out of which two thousand and thirty eight people have died so far. The doctor’s union said all the resident doctors at the Covid-19 Centers have joined the strike and withdrew their services.
This doctors strike is in progress just when the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is receiving treatment in a London hospital. Close to sixteen thousand resident doctors are participating in this strike which is indefinite. Most of the doctors are specialists who provide important healthcare services especially in emergency wards.
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