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Nigerian Resident Doctors End Strike After Weeks Of Pressure

Nigerian Resident Doctors End Strike After Weeks Of Pressure

November 30, 2025 5:09 pm

Nigerian resident doctors suspend a month-long walkout after talks with the government, easing major disruptions across public hospitals nationwide.

Nigeria’s public hospitals are set to resume full operations after the country’s resident doctors suspended a nationwide strike that had strained medical services for nearly a month. The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) announced the decision on Saturday November 29, 2025, following an Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting convened to assess negotiations with the Federal Government.

The walkout, which began on November 1, 2025, had severely disrupted clinical activity in federal and teaching hospitals, where resident doctors make up the …

Nigerian Resident Doctors Launch Indefinite Nationwide Strike

Nigerian Resident Doctors Launch Indefinite Nationwide Strike

November 3, 2025 7:53 am

Doctors halt services across Nigeria after the government fails to meet demands on welfare, working conditions, and healthcare funding despite earlier agreements.

Hospitals across Nigeria were plunged into crisis on Saturday November 1, 2025, as resident doctors launched an indefinite nationwide strike, halting services and deepening concerns about the state of healthcare in Africa’s most populous nation.

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) announced the action after a 30-day ultimatum to the Federal Government expired without resolution. NARD President, Dr. Mohammad Suleiman, confirmed the walkout in a statement made public on the association’s official platform.

“The strike has become …

Coronavirus Transforms New York As US Deaths Top 4,000

Coronavirus Transforms New York As US Deaths Top 4,000

April 1, 2020 6:03 pm

Emergency field hospitals were readied in New York’s Central Park and at the home of the US Open tennis tournament as the number of American deaths from the coronavirus pandemic surged past 4,000 — higher than the toll in China.

The pandemic has killed more than 1,700 New Yorkers and President Donald Trump, a native of the city, warned in Washington of “a very, very painful two weeks” to come for the entire country.

Already the hardest-hit area, America’s financial capital is in a race to ramp up hospital capacity before cases peak.

Around a dozen tents, equipped with 68 …

Public Officials Must Patronise Nigerian Hospitals – Obi

Public Officials Must Patronise Nigerian Hospitals – Obi

October 23, 2019 4:49 pm

Vice Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the 2019 presidential general election and former governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi, has said political office holders in Nigeria should visit hospitals in the country for their personal health needs instead of going abroad for medical tourism and encouraging capital flight.

Obi made the call while speaking during the installation of the 13th President of Onitsha Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, (ONICCIMA) at Patterson Hall, All Saints Cathedral, Onitsha.

Using himself as an example, he said he visits local hospitals like Holy Rosary Hospital, Waterside, Onitsha for …

China builds 158 Internet hospitals to control congestion

May 8, 2019 8:51 am

China’s medical authority said on Wednesday that 158 Internet hospitals had been built, to address congestion in large urban hospitals amid digital tide.

Mao Qun’an, a director of the National Health Commission, said at the second Digital China Summit that 19 provinces, or over half of China’s provincial-level regions, had established provincial tele-medicine platforms.

The central government has also earmarked 99 million U.S. dollars in special funds to add tele-medical and other equipment in primary-level health institutions in impoverished counties.

The commission is now working to realise online services in second and tertiary hospitals, he said.

China’s has a three-tier …

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