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Doctors continue strike

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    Doctors in state-owned hospitals in Nigeria have been on strike for three months to get the authorities to resolve key issues they believe must be dealt with for the health system to survive, especially poor pay and conditions of service. The impasse reflects a deepening crisis in the health sector of Africa’s most populous country.

    [See separate item titled ‘NIGERIA: IRIN Focus on the malaise in the health sector’]

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