Nigeria: Low Turnout in Hospitals As Doctors Suspend Strike

26 August 2014

Abuja, Bauchi, Lokoja, Maiduguri, Calabar, Owerri, Yola, Lagos — There was low turnout of patients at hospitals across the country yesterday after the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) called off its nationwide strike while many doctors were yet to resume work in some hospitals, a situation our correspondents attributed to internal arrangements within the various units of the medical association.

Though the NMA said it was too early to assess the situation yesterday and that by midweek things would have returned to normal, doctors in some states were yet to resume, and feelers from our correspondents indicated that patients seemed not very sure if the doctors would actually turn up for duty yesterday, just as moves towards full resumption were being made through negotiations between managements and local units of the NMA in some states.

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