Doctors under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD in Ondo state have embarked on indefinite strike action.
This was in compliance with the directive by its National body to commence the industrial action today.
The doctors strike action is coming at a critical period that the country is experiencing a rise in the third wave of the COVID 19 pandemic.
NewsSpecng gathered that General hospitals and the Federal Medical Centre FMC in Owo showed that the strike action was the strictest adhered to by the doctors as they were absent from the wards and their offices.
The chairman of the association in the state, Dr Tope Olatilu said that the action was 100 per cent effective across that state.
Dr Olatilu said doctors won’t return to work until government implement the agreements it entered with the union 113 days after it suspended the previous strike as a reason for the industrial action.
He noted that “only four per cent of the total budget is allocated to the health sector, while 25-50 per cent goes into payment of those in power.
“That shows that priority lies more on the interest of those in power than on Nigerian citizens. He said.
In the same vein, members of the National Association of Residents, NARD Doctors in Imo State begun indefinite strike.
NewsSpecng gathered that in Federal Medical Center, FMC Owerri, observed that apart from Resident Doctors, other medical personnel were working.
The Public Relations Officer of FMC, Owerri, Jacy Achonu, who spoke to our correspondent, confirmed that NARD members in the hospital were on strike.
She said, “As you can see, our hospital is not grounded. It is a strike by a segment of medical practitioners. The consultants are working, house officers are working, the nurses are also working. The only thing affected is service hours. It will only take patience on the part of the patients to access full medical services.”
