Members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have embarked on an indefinite nationwide strike.
The association president Dr Aliyu Sokomba announced this while addressing a press conference on Monday in Abuja.

Sokomba said that the union restricted its members working in various coronavirus (COVID-19) isolation and treatment centres across the country from participating in the strike.

exemption of the members attending to COVID-19 patients is for two weeks before they join the industrial action. the union has taken a decision to go on strike as a result of the failed series of meetings between the doctors and the Federal Government in the last two weeks. – He explained.

According to the NARD president, the meetings have failed to resolve the lingering industrial disputes which include the non-payment of special allowances for the resident doctors.
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He also decried the deplorable state of hospitals and the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) for members of the union treating COVID-19 patients.

Sokomba added that: this has exposed many of their colleagues to coronavirus and resulted in the death of some of them.