The Association of Resident Doctors, Federal Capital Territory Administration, has issued a stern warning to FCT Minister Nyesom Wike.
According to the Daily Trust, they are threatening a “deadliest shutdown” of hospitals in 14 days if their demanding demands are not met.
Addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday, ARD-FCTA President Dr. George Ebong praised the minister’s progress in “infrastructural development” but emphasized that urgent attention must be paid to doctors’ welfare, describing them as “on the verge of extinction” due to escalating economic hardship.
“We commend the minister for his efforts to improve infrastructure in the FCT since his appointment. However, doctors are an abandoned project.
While he works on abandoned infrastructure projects, we are the human abandoned projects. “We believe the minister can handle the challenge,” Ebong remarked.
The association’s demands are clear and urgent. Immediate payment of six months’ salary arrears owed to members employed in 2023.
“This injustice is alien to the FCT; if allowed to persist, the nation’s health sector will collapse,” Ebong warned, urging Wike to act swiftly to prevent unnecessary loss of lives.
