At the press briefing, where the NARD President updated members and the public on the progress made so far on the association’s total, indefinite, and comprehensive strike action ( TICS), a journalist asked the president if the association looked at the effect of the strike on the patients.
I am happy the president made it clear that, the strike is solely for the interest of the public. “Nigerians deserve safe,effective, adequately remunerated, well-rested doctors.”
Thank you Mr. President.
#NARD2025STRIKE
“Overworked beyond measure,
underpaid without shame.
Blamed for what cannot be controlled,
and assaulted for choosing to care"
The life of a Nigerian doctor
@nard_nigeria@Nigerian_Doctor@mohagirei
When 86% of doctors report “Feeling Tired” before even starting the days work, it clearly shows an overstretched system and productivity remains questionable. In this case, patients lives.💔 we must give priority to our doctors working hours.
SHARE until it gets to the minister🙏🏻🙏🏻
DAY 5 — “THE DOCTOR WHO COLLAPSED ON DUTY”
DEAR NIGERIANS,
Doctors are human too!
* Many battle burnout, anxiety, and hopelessness, yet still show up
* Some don’t even live to tell their stories
- All we ask is a system that lets us live while we heal others
- We are not heroes without limits , we are humans in white coats
Say it loud: Doctors deserve dignity.
#HumansInWhiteCoats | #OperationTICS | #NARDStrike2025
NARD Media Team
If FG waited until immediately Resident Doctors went on strike to do this, it means that every action of the government towards the plight of Nigerian Doctors and health workers is deliberate.
Do better, please.
The strike continues.
I am a medical doctor but the Nigerian healthcare system didn’t just fail my mother - it killed her!. And you wonder why we fight?
Doctors suffer five times over! while the nation watches in silence and indifference.
1. The indignity of empty hands - We stand before curable diseases armed with nothing: no drugs, oxygen, or hope unless a mother can pay 100% from pocket at a second's notice. A child dies of sepsis because the last bag of antibiotics ran out 2days ago and even we know well the bottoms of our pockets.
2. The heart crush of breaking bad and often avoidable news to fathers who age ten years in ten days or mothers who crumble again, again, and again.
3. The injustice of blame “You killed my brother!” though the stroke window closed hours before they arrived. The nearest CT scanner? A 10-hour round trip on roads that swallow dreams and destroy lives.
4. The insult of alms - We work 100-hour weeks, sleep in call rooms that smell of despair, with salaries that cannot buy a month of antidiabetics for our own parents.
5. The betrayal of silence - When we march, when we beg, when we kneel, Nigerians pray for our “oppressors” and tell us to “manage”. Manage death? Manage grief? Manage a system that chews up patients for breakfast and healers for supper?
Worst of all: we know the rot better than anyone and we dread the phone call that says, “Today for you doc.” Because the same eyes that cried for others will bleed unnoticed!. Don't forget Dr Rotifa - 72-hour shift - fell never to rise again. Dr Sumayya - stroke that her earnings couldn't afford to treat. Dr Idris, eye specialist that couldn't afford eye care. Many other silenced tales of woe.
We face hell to serve. Yet Nigerians turn up the heat when we scream. How do the tears of your healers leave your hearts as stone? People died for this.
Doctors! died!! for Nigerians.
We have nothing left to say, only everything left to fight for!
#FixHealthcareinNigeria
#FixTheSystem
#NARDStrike2025
#OperationTICS @nard_nigeria@Fmohnigeria@NGRPresident@NGRSenate@channelstv@ARISEtv
Don’t worry, you’ll get married when Allah wills, for His decree never comes late nor early.
Marriage is an act of worship and it carries countless responsibilities, so we must strive to become adequate spouses and parents who fear Allah and seek His pleasure in every step.
💔. @MDCNOfficial I am Dr Alamin Muhammad Usman, fully registered and licensed to practice in Nigeria and i say that SINCE THE INCEPTION OF MDCN 62 years ago, THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY REGULATION OF NIGERIAN DR’s WORKING HOURS, No document ever published by MDCN has ever looked at regulating the working hours. That has led Many doctors in Nigeria to endure long working hours exceeding 72hrs without scheduled breaks, suffering miscarriages, fainting at work, road traffic accidents, anxiety, depression and in extreme cases even death tied to the long unregulated working hours. So many studies are out there to show of that and ALL advocacies has fallen unto deaf ears.
Nigeria keeps loosing medical doctors to other countries while battling severe shortage. While we advocate for better reforms, after over a year and half of writing directly to the MDCN without response, all we could get is this?
We have the date and we will present it to you AGAIN.
WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED. OUR COUNTRY DESERVES BETTER AND WE WILL GET IT RIGHT.
You know my Folio Number.
@NaseebaBabale i spoke about this in a recent interview; how we must live through grief. how we simply can’t outsmart grief. how even the littlest of kindnesses keep reminding us about it. when it’s out, i will share, in shaa Allah.
There is no getting over grief. You think you're over it, then boom, one random thing reminds you, and you go all over again. There's no getting over grief.
A farmer in a village will harvest beans, zogale and ganye and sell it in the city. Then go back to the village and eat bread with coke and think he has arrived. HRH Emir Sanusi
We have to disrupt this colonial thinking.
#KAPFEST25