Sidu Hassan Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sidu-hassan/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sidu Hassan Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sidu-hassan/ 32 32 Nigerian doctors end strike to tend to COVID 19 patients https://jjcornish.com/2020/03/nigerian-doctors-end-strike-to-tend-to-covid-19-patients/ Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/03/nigerian-doctors-end-strike-to-tend-to-covid-19-patients/ Nigerian doctors have ended a week-long strike because of the COVID 19 pandemic raging across the world. They say the Abuja government has committed tom meet their demands. ends intro The doctors say they won’t hesitate to down stethoscopes if the authorities victimize any of their members for taking industrial action. Spokesman Dr Saidu Alhassan […]

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]]> Nigerian doctors have ended a week-long strike because of the COVID 19 pandemic raging across the world.

They say the Abuja government has committed tom meet their demands.

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The doctors say they won’t hesitate to down stethoscopes if the authorities victimize any of their members for taking industrial action.

Spokesman Dr Saidu Alhassan says government has shown genuine interest in their plight.

They had no option but to to on strike because of their poor working conditions and the dangers they face as first responders in the CORONAVIRUS pandemic that that sickened a dozen people in Nigeria

This has  caused the government to close its borders to travelers from 13 high-risk countries including Britain, the United States, China and Japan.

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