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Doctors’ Strike: CSOs Condemn Poor Doctor’s Welfare

Doctors’ Strike: CSOs condemn poor doctor’s welfare, harsh working conditions

Following a protracted strike embarked upon by over 19, 000 doctors under the auspices of National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, with no solution in sight to call off the strike, Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, Sunday, condemned poor doctors’ welfare, harsh working conditions, and others.

It will also be recalled as reported that over 500 Nigerian doctors turned up for a recruitment exercise the Saudi Health Ministry organised in Abuja, whose specialities are in anaesthesia, ICU, pediatric surgery, family medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, ENT, emergency medicine, internal medicine, orthopaedic surgery, radiology, and haematology as they seek to leave Nigeria for greener pastures abroad, especially to Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s richest and largest crude oil-producing countries.

Human lives not valued in Nigeria, FG should urgently address issues raised by doctors ―ActionAid

The Country Director, ActionAid Nigeria, AAN, Ene Obi, said, “On more doctors going to Saudi Arabia, it is very obvious that we have fewer doctors than the proportion we currently have, and it is important for the Nigerian government to address the issues the doctors have raised.

“And it is important to treat them as human beings. The kind of war going on between them and the Ministry of labour is not something to write home about; the conditions are just not friendly enough, and doctors go through a lot.

“And we have lost quite a number of them even professors whom we lost because of coronavirus, and is a life of danger they are encountered with, and you can see a lot of people going out of the country for treatment of different things instead we should face this issues of public health issues we are having in the country.

“There are so many qualified Nigerian doctors, and so many experts we have in-country but we do not value them, and this is very important.