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Doctors to consider pay offer

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    Doctors in Nigeria are due to meet on Friday to consider whether or not to call off their three-week strike that has paralysed public medical services nationwide, the BBC reported.

    The meeting is being called following a government offer of a pay rise. A doctor in the public health sector makes about US $400 a month, BBC reported, but did not state the government’s new offer.

    BBC reported that the strike had affected “tens of thousands” of patients and fuelled growing discontent with the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo. In the Midwestern city of Benin 593 patients were forced to vacate the University of Benin Teaching Hospital and the Central Hospital, ‘Thisday, a Lagos newspaper, reported on Friday. It said that only patients who had specified appointments with certain consulting physicians were still on admission.

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