On Wednesday, August 13, the Nigerian government fired all resident doctors in the country.
Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, reportedly issued the order to halt the residency training programme for doctors in Nigeria “until further notice.”
The National Association of Resident
Doctors, which is affiliated with the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA),
is estimated to have 16,000 members.
According to reports, the federal
government took the drastic measure “after exploring all avenues to end
the strike, which it said had compounded the health crisis in the
country,” Punch reports.
An excerpt from the press release by the Deputy Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Health, Alhaji Isiaka Yusuf, states:
“The situation has been compounded
by the recent importation of the Ebola Virus Disease into Nigeria on
July 20, 2014. Following the Presidential declaration of a National
Public Health Emergency on Ebola Disease, which has united the entire
country in the efforts to contain the disease, it is quite regrettable
that the people who should take leadership role in the fight against the
Ebola disease are now the most unsupportive.”
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