{"id":58028,"date":"2024-12-14T21:32:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T21:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58028"},"modified":"2024-12-14T21:32:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T21:32:06","slug":"dr-george-ebong-elected-ard-president-in-fct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/14\/dr-george-ebong-elected-ard-president-in-fct\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr George Ebong Elected ARD President in FCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dr. George Ebong of Wuse District Hospital has been elected as the new President of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), FCT chapter.<br \/>\nThe announcement was made during a dinner and awards ceremony held in Abuja on Saturday. He will serve a two-year term.<br \/>\nIn his acceptance speech, Dr. Ebong pledged to address key issues affecting resident doctors, including salary arrears, manpower shortages, delayed payments, and poor working conditions.<br \/>\nHe described the medical profession as &#8220;endangered&#8221; and called for urgent collective action to address these challenges.<br \/>\nOutgoing president, Dr. Olayinka Rahmah, thanked members for their support and praised their resilience in the face of professional challenges.<br \/>\nDr. Ebong\u2019s leadership is expected to focus on improving the welfare and working conditions of doctors in the FCT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu Dr. George Ebong of Wuse District Hospital has been elected as the new President of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), FCT chapter. The announcement was made during a dinner and awards ceremony held in Abuja on Saturday. He will serve a two-year term. In his acceptance speech, Dr. Ebong pledged to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58028","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58030,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58028\/revisions\/58030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}