The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has started a 7-day warning Strike across all its centres nationwide.
The resident doctors’ strike is to clamour for the release of their kidnapped colleague, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who has been in captivity for over eight months.
NARD President, Dr Dele Abdullahi, who said this in a statement, explained that the strike will begin Monday, August 26, 2024, at 12 midnight.
Abdullahi disclosed that the decision was taken during the virtual Emergency National Executive Council meeting of the association held on Sunday, August 25, 2024.
He said the warning strike would last one week and will be total, as there would be no emergency care.
Dr Ganiyat Popoola, a registrar in the Department of Ophthalmology at the National Eye Centre, Kaduna, was abducted nearly eight months ago, along with her husband and nephew.
While her husband was released in March, Popoola and her nephew remain in captivity.
Weeks ago, Members of NARD had protested in all tertiary hospitals across the nation to demand the immediate release of Dr Popoola.
