ABUJA, Nigeria (CHATNEWSTV) — The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) in the Federal Capital Territory on Monday issued a stern ultimatum to FCT Minister Nyesom Wike: meet their demands within 14 days or brace for what they described as the “deadliest shutdown” of hospitals in the nation’s capital.
Dr. George Ebong, the ARD president, delivered the warning during a press conference at Wuse District Hospital in Abuja, where he commended Wike’s infrastructural strides but criticized the neglect of healthcare workers.
“First, we have to appreciate the minister for his infrastructural development in the FCT since his emergence,” Ebong said. “But doctors are an abandoned project. While he fixes the infrastructural abandoned projects, we are the human abandoned projects.”
Ebong stressed the economic hardship facing doctors and called on Wike to prioritize human development alongside infrastructure.
“The minister should concentrate on human development the same way he is doing in the infrastructural sector,” he said.
The ARD president warned that the government’s failure to act would lead to an unprecedented shutdown of healthcare services in the FCT, placing patients and residents at significant risk.
