The mass exodus of doctors and health workers in other specialties has left Nigeria grappling with a shortage of manpower, leading to an unpleasant Doctor-Patient ratio.…
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Numerous people in need of care were left in hospital waiting rooms as doctors across Sierra Leone went on an indefinite strike on Monday in protest…
In August 2021, the National Association of Resident Doctors embarked on its fourth strike within one year.
Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, says the Federal Government will recover millions of naira wrongly paid to 588 medical doctors across the…
The Kenya government has sacked the Acting General Secretary of a medical practitioner and doctors union, Chibanzi Mwachonda, and 85 other doctors. Reports from the East…
Nairobi County government medical staff resumed work on Thursday following a six-day strike over delayed salaries and a lack of protective equipment when handling patients who…
No fewer than nine people have died in Ethiopia after a clash erupted between the country’s security forces and protesters demanding the release of an opposition…
Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu later granted their request along with previous agitations by journalists and other essential workers to be allowed to go to work or return home freely after work between the 8pm to 6am.
The global response to the pandemic has benefited from the work of Ethiopian doctors overseas, including aides to WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus — who is himself Ethiopian, though not a doctor — and emergency-room physicians in hotspots like New York.
Zimbabwe’s public hospital junior doctors who have been on strike over better salaries and working conditions, remain hopeful that the government will finally engage them for…