Nigeria has poorest health indices —ARD

NIGERIA has been described as a country with poorest health indices among the comity of nations.
This was disclosed by the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), while appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari and other well-meaning Nigerians to save the sector from going into extinction.
The association noted that the urgent intervention of government would prevent them from embarking on a “mother of all strike” that might have negative effects on the masses.
Addressing a news conference on Wednesday, the presidents of the association at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Abeokuta; Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu and the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Drs Taiwo Babajide, Akintola Akintunde and Akinmolayan Oluyemi, respectively, demanded that government should implement the National Health Act.
Other demands of the doctors included increase in manpower in all the health institutions, exclusion of resident doctors from the pension scheme and provision of adequate equipment and infrastructure, among other things.
“Nigeria has the worst health sector in the world. Common man are suffering to get basic health needs for primary survival. This is very bad. Most hospitals cannot boast of water, which is basic. All these basic needs must be put in place to address these challenges,” they said.
The South-West caucus leader of the association, Dr Oluseyi Aderinwale, stated that it was not the wish of doctors to embark on strike.

but might be left with no other alternative if they fail to reach an agreement with government.