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Nigerian Doctors Start Strike Amid Rising Coronavirus Cases
- Doctors group say members being owed 19 months’ salaries
- Medical personnel leaving the country due to poor incentives
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Nigerian doctors began an indefinite strike to protest the non-payment of salaries and demand increased hazard allowances as coronavirus cases surge in Africa’s most-populous nation.
The National Association of Resident Doctors, which represents more than 90% of physicians at the nation’s teaching hospitals, said its members are owed as much as 19 months’ salary by state governments. Some public-teaching hospitals have failed to pay Covid-19 allowances or to increase a 5,000-naira ($12) per month hazard stipend, the body said in a July 31 statement.