Nyesom Wike, the minister of the Federal Capital Territory, has been urged by the Association of Resident Doctors, or ARD, to abide by its demands or risk the “deadliest shutdown” of hospitals in 14 days.
The warning was given by President Dr. George Ebong on Monday at a press conference held at Wuse District Hospital in Abuja.
Ebong praised the minister’s infrastructure initiatives in Abuja but emphasized the urgent need to pay attention to the welfare of doctors who are facing extinction as a result of financial difficulties.
He believes that the minister need to focus on human development in the same manner that he does on infrastructure.
In order to prevent what he called the deadliest hospital closure in the nation’s capital, he pointed out that the FCT minister has 14 days to implement the demands.
First and foremost, we must thank the minister for the advancement of the FCT’s infrastructure since his ascent to power.
We want him to be aware that the project “Doctors” has been abandoned. We are the human abandoned projects while he fixes the infrastructure-related ones. We think the minister is capable of handling the situation.
