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A former National President of the Nigeria Medical Association, (NMA) Prof Michael Ozovehe Ogirima has called on President Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government to do the needful by putting an end to the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors, (NARD).
Prof Ogirima made the call on Thursday, at the 2021 Nigeria Medical Association, (NMA) Kogi State Chapter’s annual general meeting and scientific conference held in Lokoja with the theme ” the deteriorating security situation in Nigeria, implications for healthcare delivery”.
The former NMA President said it was sad that resident doctors are on strike when the world is still battling with the deadly coronavirus pandemics.
The Professor of Orthopedic surgery said the strike has become a reoccurring decimal in Nigeria’s system for workers to press home their demands, stressing that Nigerians are the ones bearing the heat as a result of the industrial action.
He lamented the mass exodus of medical practitioners out of the county due to poor remuneration from their employers adding that the government should do the needful before things go out of place.
” As a medical doctor in this country, am not happy to see my colleagues going on strike. It has happened before and it is happening again, and I hope we will find a lasting solution.
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