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FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by Nemere2020(op): 10:59am On Sep 08, 2025

The Association of Resident Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has commenced a seven-day warning strike, citing longstanding systemic issues within the FCT health system.

The industrial action was announced on Monday via a communiqué jointly signed by the association’s President, Dr George Ebong, and other executive members.

According to the statement, the FCT health sector has been plagued by chronic underfunding, staff shortages, and poor working conditions — challenges which the doctors say have reached a breaking point. The group is calling for urgent and comprehensive reforms to address these systemic failings.

Dr Ebong expressed concern over the increasing workload faced by resident doctors, who are often forced to manage multiple departments simultaneously due to inadequate staffing.

“Our members are stretched beyond capacity. This is not only unsustainable but also compromises the quality of care delivered to patients,” he said.

The strike is expected to affect services in government-owned hospitals and clinics within the FCT, including general outpatient care, specialist consultations, and certain in-patient services.

The warning strike comes amid broader concerns within Nigeria’s healthcare system, where brain drain, insufficient infrastructure, and delayed payments have contributed to recurring industrial actions across several states.

Resident doctors form a significant part of Nigeria’s healthcare workforce. Their roles are vital in tertiary and secondary care institutions, making any strike action highly disruptive.

https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2025/09/08/strike-hits-abuja-hospitals-as-resident-doctors-withdraw-services/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwVERDUAMriERleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHpZvTkuKc4qEdoRjtRCAWg1A4w5OdHezElgMiUB-2WQoBccGVAY6PqW7cRDP_aem_3NaDjjAtnXMVm5xuzg0Fwg

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by GrammarNazi1(m): 11:09am On Sep 08, 2025

Doctors should be treated better.

All workers should be treated better.

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by Bellotelli: 11:13am On Sep 08, 2025

Seriously. The issue with staff shortage should be looked into. My friends wife who is a nurse recently collapsed at her unit because of lack of rest

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by favour32(m): 11:15am On Sep 08, 2025

Politicians dey share and chop yanfuyanfu but na peanut 🥜 be their own.

You nor talk of professor.
I nor dey sorry for professor.
Na professor put Nigeria where dem dey.

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by onyxo76(m): 11:16am On Sep 08, 2025

strikes again, anyway who cares, the law makers don't use the hospitals they built

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by donmixc: 11:31am On Sep 08, 2025

let's see what tyrant wike and tinubu will do, since they talk before thinking undecided

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by tuoyoojo(m): 11:34am On Sep 08, 2025

They treat the healthcare system shabbily because they don't utilise it

As long as they can go out to seek health care abroad, they don't care about the dilapidated health system in Nigeria

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by Pastorjohn2: 11:42am On Sep 08, 2025

All the doctors should be immediately placed on suspension without pay.
The doctors that even started the warning strike should be sacked and have their medical license revoked with possible prison time!

Medicine is a calling to help the sick not to seek financial riches!

Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by thesicilian: 11:47am On Sep 08, 2025

The day we start insisting on politicians getting their medical treatments only in Nigeria, that's the day they'll start focusing on developing the healthcare sector

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by thesicilian: 11:49am On Sep 08, 2025

Pastorjohn2:
All the doctors should be immediately placed on suspension without pay.
The doctors that even started the warning strike should be sacked and have their medical license revoked with possible prison time!

Medicine is a calling to help the sick not to seek financial riches!

Until the day your loved ones will need an urgent medical intervention and you're told there's not enough hands to help because all the available medical staff are busy with more urgent cases. Keep fooling yourself in an attempt to chase clout.

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by gerrardomendes(m): 12:02pm On Sep 08, 2025

I thought they said Tinubu has subsidized cost of dialysis. Until we enact laws ending medical tourism for politicians, our health sector will remain in shambles

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by addexx: 12:05pm On Sep 08, 2025

Pastorjohn2:
All the doctors should be immediately placed on suspension without pay.
The doctors that even started the warning strike should be sacked and have their medical license revoked with possible prison time!

Medicine is a calling to help the sick not to seek financial riches!

What in the world is diswan even saying. huh

So because medicine is a calling, practitioners should live like beggars . You didn't even read the article to understand. Just dey open mouth waaaaaaahhh. undecided

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by ufotunang: 12:28pm On Sep 08, 2025

onyxo76:
strikes again, anyway who cares, the law makers don't use the hospitals they built

..but it's Nigerians, common man that it will negatively affect

Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by ufotunang: 12:29pm On Sep 08, 2025

How will government care for the health sector .. when they travel to foreign countries abroad for medical treatments..it's a pity

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by onyxo76(m): 12:39pm On Sep 08, 2025

Pastorjohn2:
All the doctors should be immediately placed on suspension without pay.
The doctors that even started the warning strike should be sacked and have their medical license revoked with possible prison time!

Medicine is a calling to help the sick not to seek financial riches!

so when you sack everyone ,who will do the work, when even the people on ground are not enough to cater for the sick people, just pray you never fall victim of any medical emergency that needs to be solved within an hour and you realize that the doctor to attend to your case has been sacked or suspended and the one who handle your case cannot get to your in the next 12 hours, na there you go know whether to sack the few doctors left is a good idea.

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by ddippset(m): 12:40pm On Sep 08, 2025

Normally Wike no care about Doctors and Teachers.

Lawyers and Judges are his priority.

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by onyxo76(m): 12:41pm On Sep 08, 2025

ufotunang:
..but it's Nigerians, common man that it will negatively affect

abi, to be a common man in this is a criminal offence, even the laws of the land are against you already.

Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by FavouriteOfGod(f): 12:48pm On Sep 08, 2025

ufotunang:
How will government care for the health sector .. when they travel to foreign countries abroad for medical treatments..it's a pity

We hope to visit able to correct this medical tourism by our political class. And it's very wrong. If they continue to do that, they won't make it a priority to improve on our medical infrastructure and services within the country.

Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by KaptainAfrika: 1:12pm On Sep 08, 2025

No houses for doctors because they cant rig elections, and also because they are not the ones that treat politicians when they fall sick. cool

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by tayo4ng(m): 1:24pm On Sep 08, 2025

A country that Care more for politician's more than the civil servants, the poor will still be the once that will be affected, they all have their private hospitals to visit

Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by nwirinedu(m): 1:26pm On Sep 08, 2025

A young doctor died in RSUTH, no too long ago, due to overwork. Even supervisors can be evil. Goodluck to the doctors but the people you re striking for go abroad for treatment.

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by Dvdpity: 2:19pm On Sep 08, 2025

Nigerian medical doctors are one of those earnings highest salary in Nigeria now. They should have patience for tinubu economic development 🤣.

Well, residents doctors are students, whom the federal government is paying for doing residency program.
A resident doctor earns between 350,000 to 500,000 per month Now. So why are they going on strike?
staff shortages cannot be fixed as far as the medical and dental council refuses to stop the exodus of medical doctors out of the country.

So, to cut story short, tinubu should fix the value of Naira, if Nigeria currency which is currently valueless (toilet paper) is fixed with a value of 100 Naira to a dollar, a lot of problems with staff shortages will be stopped. Including renumeration.

Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by Nobody: 2:21pm On Sep 08, 2025

One of the best Association logos in the country

Nemere2020:
https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2025/09/08/strike-hits-abuja-hospitals-as-resident-doctors-withdraw-services/?utm_source=&utm_medium=facebook&fbclid=IwVERDUAMriERleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHpZvTkuKc4qEdoRjtRCAWg1A4w5OdHezElgMiUB-2WQoBccGVAY6PqW7cRDP_aem_3NaDjjAtnXMVm5xuzg0Fwg

Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by Nobody: 2:23pm On Sep 08, 2025

A general of any reasonable god should not reason like this.

Pastorjohn2:
All the doctors should be immediately placed on suspension without pay.
The doctors that even started the warning strike should be sacked and have their medical license revoked with possible prison time!

Medicine is a calling to help the sick not to seek financial riches!

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by CodeTemplarr: 3:46pm On Sep 08, 2025

Pastorjohn2:
All the doctors should be immediately placed on suspension without pay.
The doctors that even started the warning strike should be sacked and have their medical license revoked with possible prison time!

Medicine is a calling to help the sick not to seek financial riches!

what about public offfices? A call to collect fat pay?

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by fashrola(m): 5:55pm On Sep 08, 2025

tuoyoojo:
They treat the healthcare system shabbily because they don't utilise it

As long as they can go out to seek health care abroad, they don't care about the dilapidated health system in Nigeria

But their minions on Nairaland and offline are using it grin

And they are even supporting their oppressors despite not able to afford or access good healthcare in the country.

No be juju be that?

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Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by Judolisco(m): 7:29pm On Sep 08, 2025

Same strike dis people went on in 2018,as a result I lost my big sis.....they've started again.... They are the most paid professionals in Nigeria but they always want more... Must u go on strike

Re: FCT: Resident Doctors Begin 7-day Warning Strike by Pacesetter123(m): 10:37am On Sep 09, 2025

Pastorjohn2:
All the doctors should be immediately placed on suspension without pay.
The doctors that even started the warning strike should be sacked and have their medical license revoked with possible prison time!

Medicine is a calling to help the sick not to seek financial riches!

Don't worry,you will soon wake up from your slumber.

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