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NIGERIA has spent 72 per cent of its health sector budgets to pay salaries and run offices in the past 11 years

As Doctors Go on Strike…

THE HORIZON BY KAYODE KOMOLAFE    kayode.komolafe@thisdaylive.com   It is certainly a measure of the premium placed on the delivery of social goods that the seven-day old strike by doctors has not elicited a sense of emergency on the part of the government and the public alike. The strike took a turn for the worse on Monday when the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) ordered its members in the COVID-19 isolation centres to join the strike. The doctors undergoing residency training to become consultants are estimated to constitute about 40% of doctors in Nigeria. With the population of NARD members in the healthcare delivery system, a labour action embarked by them is expected to have a significant impact on the sector. As an affiliate of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), NARD’s action would have consequences on the work of other groups of doctors. It would be illusory to think otherwise in the unfortunate circumstance of the healthcare system. In

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