From Muhammad Ibrahim, Femi, Kaduna
The strike action kicked-off in Kaduna yesterday, with many of the public hospitals shut to patients in compliance to the NMA order.
The Federal Psychiatric hospital, Barnawa; Federal eye centre Mando; Federal ear care centre and Yusufu Dantsoho hospitals were all under lock.
The NMA’s Kaduna chapter chairman, Dr. Mohammed Sani Ibrahim, said the association
has been constrained by the inability of the Nigerian government to resolve the perennial crisis rocking the health sector which was why the doctors embarked on indefinite strike.
Also speaking the former Chairman of Kaduna State Chapter of Nigerian Medical Association, Dr. Aliyu Usman Bappa said all hospitals; both federal and state owned hospitals were affected.
“We called the general public to remain patient and mount pressure on the government to listen to plight of medical doctors in this country. The strike we embarked on today is to fight for the course of Nigerians,” he stated.
Dr. Bappa however called on the government to stop politicizing the Medical doctor’s strike, saying doing so will not help the situation.
