Patients stranded as resident doctors begin strike
•Speaker meets Tinubu over strike •We're looking into doctors' demands – FG •Govt response'll determine length of strike – NARD President THE National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, at exactly noon yesterday, made good its threat as members complied with the indefinite strike order issued by the National Executive Council, NEC, on Tuesday night. NARD embarked on the strike, despite the intervention of speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, who met with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday night, urging him to wade into the matter, with a view to addressing the issues at stake. Although the Federal Government said it was already looking into the demands of the striking resident doctors towards effecting a speedy resolution, NARD said the government was yet to call them for a meeting, insisting that government's response would determine how long the strike would last. As of 12:30 pm when pressmen visited some of the affected tertiary health ins...