COVID-19: Nigerian doctors threaten to down tools on June 15th

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COVID-19: Nigerian doctors threaten to down tools on June 15th
June 9, 2020
| Updated: 3 hours ago
CNBC Africa

COVID-19: Nigerian doctors threaten to down tools on June 15th
Doctors in Nigeria have threatened to go on an indefinite nationwide strike from the 15th of June over working conditions and salary arrears. With over 12,801 confirmed Covid-19 cases in Nigeria.

Doctors in Nigeria have threatened to go on an indefinite nationwide strike from the 15th of June over working conditions and salary arrears. With over 12,801 confirmed Covid-19 cases in Nigeria, Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor the CEO of EpiAfric joins CNBC Africa to discuss how this could impact the progress made in containing this pandemic

 

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Nigerian doctors strike for better benefits during coronavirus crisis
Reuters
Published: 10 hours ago
Updated: 4 hours ago

ABUJA (Reuters) - Resident doctors in Nigerian public hospitals went on strike on Monday to demand better benefits, including the provision of more protective equipment, as they battle the coronavirus, the union said.

Those treating COVID-19 patients will stay on the job but their union, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), gave the government two weeks to meet the demands or else they would also walk out.

Resident doctors are those who have graduated from medical school and are training as specialist consultants. They are pivotal to frontline healthcare in Nigeria as they dominate the emergency wards in its hospitals.

Strikes are common in Nigeria's public health system, with clinicians frequently seeking pay rises and improvements to under-funded infrastructure to meet the rising burden of healthcare in the West African country of 200 million people.

"If the government fails to meet our minimum demands within two weeks, the resident doctors working in (COVID-19) isolation centres will automatically join the strike," Aliyu Sokomba, the head of the union, said in a statement...

 

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Nigerian Doctors Suspend Strike Over Benefits to Hold Talks
By Reuters
June 22, 2020 01:47 PM

LAGOS - Resident doctors in Nigerian public hospitals have suspended a strike they began last week in which they demanded better benefits, including the provision of more protective equipment, as they battle the coronavirus, the union said on Monday.

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), launching the industrial action last Monday, said it would give the government two weeks to meet its demands or else those treating COVID-19 patients, who stayed on the job, would also walk out.

Resident doctors are those who have graduated from medical school and are training as specialist consultants. They are pivotal to frontline healthcare in Nigeria as they dominate the emergency wards in its hospitals...