{"id":62233,"date":"2025-03-06T11:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62233"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:38:01","slug":"doctors-welfare-crisis-nma-fct-urges-national-assembly-to-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/06\/doctors-welfare-crisis-nma-fct-urges-national-assembly-to-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors\u2019 Welfare Crisis: NMA-FCT Urges National Assembly to Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Olanlesi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA-FCT) has urged the National Assembly to address the worsening welfare crisis pushing doctors out of Nigeria amid the ongoing &#8220;Japa syndrome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a visit to Dr. Adesola Adedayo, Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Health and Social Welfare, NMA-FCT Chairman, Dr. Emeka Ayogu, warned that poor working conditions and inadequate pay were fueling the mass exodus of healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Ayogu called for urgent reforms to improve salaries, incentives, and working conditions, stressing that recent doctors\u2019 strikes underscore the severity of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Adedayo assured that legislative efforts were underway to prioritize doctors\u2019 welfare, urging unity within the sector to drive lasting reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi\u00a0 The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA-FCT) has urged the National Assembly to address the worsening welfare crisis pushing doctors out of Nigeria amid the ongoing &#8220;Japa syndrome.&#8221; Speaking during a visit to Dr. Adesola Adedayo, Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Health and Social Welfare, NMA-FCT Chairman, Dr. Emeka Ayogu, warned that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62233","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62235,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62233\/revisions\/62235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}