President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to members of the National Association of Resident Doctors to shelve their planned strike and give the government more time to address their grievances. This was disclosed on Thursday in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu. According to the statement, “Decrying the adverse impact of the fall in oil prices on the Federal Government’s spending plans for health and other sectors, President Buhari said that his administration would continue to do its best to address issues that were of concern to doctors and Nigerians. The President also gave the NMA delegation an insight into his administration’s plan to establish 10,000 primary healthcare centres across the country in the next two years, with the objective of providing better healthcare for about 100 million Nigerians. He also told the delegation, led by the NMA President, Dr. Kayode Obembe, that the National Health Act will soon be put in a gazette and a steering committee appointed to oversee its implementation.”
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