(NMA), Dr Osahon Enabulele on Sunday said doctors
in public hospitals would end their five-day warning
strike and resume duty on Monday.
Enabulele, in a statement in Lagos, said that all
doctors in the public health sector would resume full
services with effect from 8.00 a.m. on Dec. 23.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the
NMA had on Dec.15 directed its members to embark
on the nationwide strike.
The action is to protest against the doctors' poor
working conditions, inadequate funding, and poor
infrastructure in the nation's health sector.
"NMA wishes to inform the general public that
doctors in the public health sector will resume
services from Dec. 23.
"This is in line with our earlier promise to give prime
consideration to the Yuletide season in the
prosecution of our warning strike.
"Also, to give another opportunity for the Federal
Government to concretely resolve all the demands of
NMA for which it first issued a 21-day ultimatum on
Sept. 2," he said.
Enabulele also called on the Federal Government to
ensure that the demands of doctors were met.
"Nigerian doctors shall not hesitate to commence a
full blown strike from 8.00 a.m. on Jan. 6, 2014, if
government does not satisfactorily resolve the
demands of doctors.
"We fervently call on all well-meaning Nigerians to
assist in the resolution of the demands of the NMA.
The demand includes appropriate funding of
Nigeria's healthcare system, expansion of universal
health coverage to cover all Nigerians and health
infrastructure upgrade.
Activities in all the government-owned hospitals
nationwide were paralysed during the five-day strike
by medical doctors.
In Lagos, NAN reports that the strike paralysed
activities in all the facilities as consultants and
resident doctors were unavailable to attend to
hundreds of patients who thronged the hospitals.
Sent From David Aniemeka
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