{"id":32382,"date":"2021-04-01T12:29:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=32382"},"modified":"2021-04-01T12:29:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:29:19","slug":"resident-doctors-down-tools-begin-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=32382","title":{"rendered":"Resident doctors down tools, begin strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Making good their threat, resident doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Thursday morning began a nationwide strike.<br \/><br \/>They rebuffed the last ditch efforts of the Federal Government to down their stethoscopes and white gowns.<br \/><br \/>In a public message directly to Nigerians, they appealed for understanding since their action is not to hurt them.<br \/><br \/>On the association\u2019s Twitter handle, @nard_nigeria, on Thursday morning, the doctors wrote, \u201cNigerians must understand that we love them and the strike is not intended to hurt them but to challenge the Nigerian government @MBuhari @Fmohnigeria @LabourMinNG whose responsibilities amongst others is to care for her citizens and labour force to do the needful.\u201d<br \/><br \/>The union\u2019s President, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, confirmed the development, even as President Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is away to London for medical check-up.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making good their threat, resident doctors under the aegis of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Thursday morning began a nationwide strike. They rebuffed the last ditch efforts of the Federal Government to down their stethoscopes and white gowns. In a public message directly to Nigerians, they appealed for understanding since their action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773],"tags":[31,2254,1636],"class_list":["post-32382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-buhari","tag-nard","tag-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}