{"id":15873,"date":"2024-01-23T10:05:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T10:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=15873"},"modified":"2024-01-23T10:05:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T10:05:33","slug":"enugu-doctors-declare-indefinite-strike-over-shortages-and-unmet-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/23\/enugu-doctors-declare-indefinite-strike-over-shortages-and-unmet-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Enugu Doctors Declare Indefinite Strike Over Shortages and Unmet Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-225\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)] agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"957fff28-a9d8-4651-873f-a006a3c6a1cd\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Teaching Hospital, ESUT-Parklane, has declared an indefinite strike due to severe doctor shortages, security concerns, and inadequate support for the residency program.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was announced after an Emergency General Meeting on Saturday, and the strike is set to begin on January 31, 2024. The doctors expressed disappointment with the hospital management and the Enugu State Government for not addressing their demands despite a 14-day ultimatum and an additional 49 days of grace.<\/p>\n<p>Key issues include the lack of doctor employment, security lapses, non-payment of Medical Residency Training Funds (MRTF), salary increments neglect, and exclusion of house officers from state governor&#8217;s palliative measures.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors urged urgent actions to address these concerns and called for state government intervention to prevent disruptions in healthcare delivery.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Teaching Hospital, ESUT-Parklane, has declared an indefinite strike due to severe doctor shortages, security concerns, and inadequate support for the residency program. The decision was announced after an Emergency General Meeting on Saturday, and the strike is set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[581,582],"class_list":["post-15873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-ard","tag-mrtf"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15909,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15873\/revisions\/15909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}