BREAKING: Doctors declare three-day strike, shut hospitals

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Due to unpaid salaries, allowances, and other demands, the Association of Resident Doctors, Federal Capital Territory Administration, or ARD FCTA, has started a three-day warning strike.

Activities in Abuja’s government hospitals have been suspended due to the strike.

This was revealed by Dr. George Ebong, President of ARD FCTA, during a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday.

According to Ebong, the strike occurred after the doctors’ three-week ultimatum from the previous year had passed.

Ebong, speaking on behalf of ARD, criticized the nation’s capital’s disregard for hospitals and the well being of doctors.

He emphasized that doctors in Abuja had turned into abandoned projects and urged Nyesom Wike, the FCT Minister, to step in and prevent hospitals from closing permanently.

According to his statement, the decision to embark on the three-day warning strike is a fallout from a Congress held by its members on Tuesday.

“The three-day strike is being implemented across all government hospitals in Abuja—from Wuse to Asokoro, Maitama, Kubwa, Zuba, Kwali, Abaji, Nyanya and all other hospitals in Abuja.

“We gave the government a three-week ultimatum to meet our demands, and after that, we met with them and dialogued on several occasions. They pleaded for two weeks, but after that elapsed, nothing has been done. Not even the minimum thing. We expected them to pay for the six months of unpaid arrears to doctors.”

“Honestly, doctors have been abandoned projects. Just as the roads are being constructed, the welfare of doctors should be considered by the minister.”

“After this three-day strike, we will do an appraisal. If nothing is done, we will go on an indefinite strike.”

“We want the Minister of FCT to solve this problem to avert an indefinite shutdown of the hospitals in Abuja,” he said during the press briefing on Wednesday.

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