Buhari Asks Doctors To Seek Other Means Of Negotiation, Not Strikes • Channels Television

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President Muhammadu Buhari in a meeting with NMA executives at the State House in Abuja on July 19, 2018.

 

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to medical doctors to avoid going on strike but consider other means of negotiation for better working conditions.

He said this on Thursday when he received the new executive of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

The President asked them to always see their profession as a divine call, especially in taking decisions that directly impact on the lives of Nigerians.

“The medical profession is regarded as a divine call because of the strategic role you play in the lives of human beings,” he said in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina.

President Buhari revealed that the Federal Government was considering an upward review of budgetary allocation to the health sector, in order to improve the quality and access to medical facilities…



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