The Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, Abuja said it drafted locum doctors, serving National Youths Service Corps members who are doctors and house officers to offset the shortage of manpower caused by the ongoing strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). The hospital’s Head of Clinical Services, Dr Joseph Eziechila, said they had to take the measure to avoid shutdown so as to continue to attend to patients.
A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who visited Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, Abuja, found that patients were still being attended to though, there were few patients.
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