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Nigeria: Junior doctors begin five-day strike over lingering demands

Nigeria: Junior doctors begin five-day strike over lingering demands

Africa Links 24 with Femi Akinyemi
Published on 2024-06-27 13:07:38

Junior hospital doctors in England on Thursday began a five-day strike, a week before a general election in which the state of the publicly funded National Health Service is a major issue.

It follows nearly a dozen similar actions by doctors below the specialist, consultant level over the last 18 months.

The NHS is grappling with a massive backlog caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and exacerbated by the repeated doctors’ strikes.

As well as delays to operations and starting cancer…

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