5/10/09 Sunday Things are heating up. Doctors began strike last Tuesday after Chairman of the Medical Guild, Dr. Ibrahim Olaifa was sacked. Doctors demand he be reinstated. On Thursday government announced they had recruited 200 new doctors to take over from the striking doctors. Government also stated any doctors still interested in their jobs, start back to work immediately or be sacked. Doctors were given 24 hours to think about it. Next. Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) threatened to call out all public health institutions workers, to strike in solidarity.
Authorities of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) gave the striking doctors 24 hours to resume work or risk being replaced. The ultimatum has since expired. Chairman of the hospital board threatens to resign if doctors get fired. Doctors waiting strike letters.
The minimum salary wage of a medical doctor in Lagos State is N75,000 compared with about N120,000 in other states.
5/9/09 Elechi May Sack Striking Workers thisdayonline.com
5/5/09 Strike by doctors at government hospitals going into third day. Row over pay and out dated facilities. Government saying they have met all doctors needs and this is blackmail. A doctor, Maruf Agarau was beaten up on Tuesday is critically ill in a Lagos hospital and later died. Incident took place in Surulere General Hospital. Who beat him into a coma? Over zealous police!
Government says the strike is needless, unwarranted and unethical!
16 April 2009 Gauteng, strike by doctors in state hospitals over pay and working conditions. Emergency only basis. South African Medical Association (Sama) said it had not organized the action and did not sanction it, but it did sympathize with their plight.
1/14/09 Nigeria, Bauchi State second day of strike by medical workers has paralyzed hospitals. Bauchi Specialists' Hospital (biggest hospital in the state) looked uninhabitable, no patients, midwives or nurses. Staff wants immediate 15% raise.
6 January, 2009 Appeal by Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola to doctors in the state government‘s hospitals to call off their strike, which entered the second day on Tuesday. Doctors won't give.
11/21/08 University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital branch, on Tuesday embarked on an indefinite strike following an attack on a doctor by a patient’s relative after the death of a 65-year-old man. Son of a deceased patient attacked doctor from behind, knocked him down then attempted to smash a chair over the doctors head. This happened in ward 5. Strike will continue till hospital takes security measures.
10/15/08 Nigeria Lagos University Teaching Hospitals, (LUTH)doctors shift strike to Oct 17, champion-newspapers.com
10/2/08 Nigeria: Mass Discharge of Patients as Medical Staff Abandon Posts. allafrica.com
9/16/08 Nigeria Medical workers unions has threatened to go on strike on September 30 to protest non payment of monetisation arrears by the federal government. allafrica.com
6/16/08 Nigeria: Ebonyi Doctors Suspend Strike. allafrica.com
6/11/08 HARARE: Public hospitals Harare and Parirenyetwa are discharging patients and closing wards because of a nationwide nurses' strike. Hand in hand with a go-slow by senior doctors and full strike action by junior and middle-level doctors. Nurses were on Z$90,000 (US $104.72) a month salary. They want their new salaries pegged at US$1,000
3/25/08 Nigeria, Doctors end industrial action. allafrica
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10/08/08 Deadly cholera epidemic, with more than 12,000 cases reported since August. One reason for this in Harare, the capital and largest city, there is no clean public water because the government has not bought chemicals to treat the water and sewage.This is what to expect if you need healthcare in Nigeria, get evacuation medical insurance!
Nigeria Medical Association (NMA)
National Association of Residence Doctors (NARD)
President,
Dr Shittu.
South African Medical Association (Sama)
Brahim Olaifa, chairman of Lagos State Medical Guild
9/29/09 The Federal Government, on Tuesday, managed to stave off a possible strike when it approved the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) for medical and dental practitioners in the country. Doctors have been fighting for this since 1998.
5/12/09 Tuesday. Medical doctors in the employ of the Lagos State Government yesterday called off their six-day-old strike. Government has met some of their plans, has yet to implement others and reinstate some doctors. Doctors warn government any repercussions to doctors and they will be out on strike again.
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