The National Association of Resident Doctors on August 2nd,2021 made true its threat by embarking on an indefinite nationwide strike over issues bordering on it’s welfare, training and service delivery. As expected, the effect of the industrial action is already taking its toll on the nations health sector. This is second time doctors are going on nationwide strike this year on what they described as Government’s insincerity in implementing Memorandum of Actions signed between both parties. A visit to the Wuse District Hospital by CNA crew indicates the effect of the strike as the usual beehive of activities usually seen around the premises has totally disappeared. A staff of the Wuse hospital, Peter Idoma narrated how a patient who was brought to the hospital in a critical condition had to be taken to a private facility due to non availability of doctors. The federal government on its part is not taking the issue likely,as it had implored on the striking doctors to return to the negotiating table. In the same vain, the president, Association of Resident Doctors, National Hospital Abuja, Akanimo Ebong and the President Association of Resident Doctors University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada, Ameh Aboul insists on government sincerity to agreements reached with the Association. It is expected that both the government and the doctors take to the negotiating table to resolve the differences as the trend of industrial disharmony in the nation’s health sector is becoming a cause for concern especially for Nigerians that cannot access treatment in private health facilities.
