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March 5, 2020
The Association of Resident Doctors,ARD Kaduna State chapter, has embarked on an indefinite strike beginning fromtoday, Wednesday.
The Association’s President,Emmanuel Joseph in a statement in Kaduna said the strike was necessitated bythe state government’s failure to honour an agreement it had with theassociation bordering on salary adjustments and tackling some challenges in thehealth sector.
He added that the doctors would notaccept new patients in any public health facility and are currently dischargingor referring patients on admission.
It would be recalled that sinceOctober 2017, the state government and the association agreed to a Memorandumof Understanding, MOU in a meeting brokered by NMA, with a timeline ofimplementation.
According to Joseph, the associationhad kept its own part of the deal while the government is yet to do so despitereminders by the association.
He said it also met with thegovernment on November 25, 2019, and agreed to give it three months toimplement the agreement, but also failed to do so.