Nigeria: The Complexities of the Doctors' Strike

17 July 2014
opinion

I must confess the present strike embarked upon by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) gives me a gummed-lip on a rather touchy development with all the attendant casualties. What I have resolved is to allow the issues to discuss itself, getting the informed to layout the issues on both sides. As a starter, I am inclined to get across some of the arguments espoused by a popular Lagos NMA activist, Dr. Majolagbe Taofik, posted as "THE NIGERIAN HEALTH SECTOR; JUST BEFORE THE WATERLOO" in www.tques.blogspot.com . It makes an interesting reading though not necessarily the core-views of this column.

"It is over two weeks now since the Nigerian Medical Association pulled her members away from work. No doubt NMA received the worst bashing from the general public. This situation is so because people lack depth into the issues that have caused the present action of the doctors and of course the fact that they cannot phantom why the doctors would appear callous as to abandon their patients.

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