{"id":334431,"date":"2021-04-01T16:57:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=334431"},"modified":"2021-04-01T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:31:57","slug":"nigerian-doctors-commence-strike-two-days-after-president-buhari-left-for-medical-checkup-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=334431","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Doctors Commence Strike Two Days After President Buhari Left For Medical Checkup In UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors on Thursday commenced a nationwide strike despite last-minute efforts by the Nigerian government to stop it.<br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nThe resident doctors, in a Twitter message, said the industrial action was not intended to hurt the public.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2021\/04\/BREAKING-Nigerian-Doctors-Commence-Strike-Two-Days-After-President-Buhari.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nThe association said on its Twitter handle, @nard_nigeria, on Thursday morning: \u201cNigerians must understand that we love them and the strike is not intended to hurt them but to challenge the Nigerian government @MBuhari @Fmohnigeria @LabourMinNG whose responsibilities amongst others is to care for her citizens and labour force to do the needful.\u201d<br \/>\nThe NARD President, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, also said the strike commenced by 8am Thursday.<br \/>\nThe strike commenced two days after President Muhammadu Buhari left the country for the UK for a medical checkup.<br \/>\nA statement by the Presidency on Tuesday said the President \u201cis due back in the country during the second week of April 2021.\u201d<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors on Thursday commenced a nationwide strike despite last-minute efforts by the Nigerian government to stop it. The resident doctors, in a Twitter message, said the industrial action was not intended to hurt the public. The association said on its Twitter handle, @nard_nigeria, on Thursday morning: \u201cNigerians must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14571,3],"tags":[2658,1730,16595,4456],"class_list":["post-334431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-doctors","tag-nard","tag-strike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/334432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}