SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, (THEWILL) – The Borno State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has shunned the ongoing general strike embarked upon by the national body of the association.
This, according to the local NMA chapter, is to allow medical doctors in the state to attend to victims of the five-year-old Boko Haram insurgency in the state.
An impeccable source told THEWILL that disclosed that medical doctors in neighbouring Adamawa and Yobe States are also shunning the general strike to enable them attend to victims of Boko Haram.
The source however said that though the doctors did not join their colleagues in the strike, they align with the demands of their other colleagues, maintaining that the decision was made in line with the ethics of the profession which demands a sacrifice for the life of patients.
Nonetheless, NMA members at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital and the Federal Neuro- Psychiatric Hospitals are joining the strike though there are doctors attending to emergency cases in the two hospitals.
Commenting on the development, the state NMA chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Mshellia, said the association decided to shun the ongoing strike because of the peculiarities of the state, especially the security challenges where casualties from the insurgency are brought to hospitals in the state on a daily basis.
