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Nigerian doctors suspend strike to allow government time to meet demands

Published 10/09/2020, 19:57
Updated 10/09/2020, 20:00

By Camillus Eboh
ABUJA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Nigerian resident doctors on
Thursday suspended a strike to allow the government time to meet
its demands over pay and working conditions amid the spread of
the coronavirus, the head of the doctors' union said.
The National Association of Resident Doctors resolved to
suspend the strike "to give government time to address our
demands," said Aliyu Sokomba, president of the union, in a
WhatsApp message to Reuters.
The strike began on Monday, and included 16,000 resident
doctors out of a total of 42,000 doctors in the country,
including those who worked in COVID-19 treatment centres, he had
said earlier this week. Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, has more than 55,000
confirmed coronavirus infections and more than 1,000 deaths.
Resident doctors are medical school graduates training as
specialists. They are pivotal to frontline healthcare in Nigeria
as they dominate the emergency wards in its hospitals.
The union last went on strike in June, demanding better
benefits and more protective equipment for battling coronavirus.
They are still demanding, among other things, life insurance and
hazard allowances. A labour ministry statement earlier this week said the
government had spent 20 billion naira ($52.53 million) on hazard
allowances for healthcare workers in April, May and June, and
had met the bulk of the doctors' demands.

($1 = 380.7000 naira)

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