Nigeria Governors’ Forum under the leadership of Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau state has called on the Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, to end its current resident doctor’s strike for the sake of the lives they have sworn to save as doctors.
In a statement released in Abuja and signed by the Secretary of the Forum, Earl Osaro Onaiwu, the governors called on the leadership of the NMA to remember their Hippocratic Oath as the strike was devastating the lives of the poor in our nation, who can only afford medical care in government owned medical facilities.
The statement reminded the striking doctors that their friends and families are not immuned from the effects of the strike as anybody can fall ill or be involved in an emergency at anytime and anywhere in the country.
The governors under the leadership of Governor Jang then called on the doctors to end the strike on humanitarian grounds and engage in honest dialogue with the federal government in order to stop the pain and suffering melted on Nigerians by their action.