Nigerian government reinstates sacked resident doctors

The Minister of Health, Onyebuchi Chukwu, has announced the reinstatement of the over 16, 000 resident doctors sacked on August 13 .
The spokesperson to the Minister, Dan Nwomeh, in a tweet, said the doctors reinstatement became effective yesterday (Thursday).


The resident doctors make up 70 per cent of the workforce in government’s hospitals.
The doctors were sacked after a month-long strike by the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, an association of all medical practitioners in Nigeria.
The doctors had gone on indefinite strike following government’s refusal to accede to their “24 minimum demands ” by the Nigerian government.

Source: premiumtimesng