THE Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has appealed to the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to call off its strike in the interest of the nation.
The Sultan made the call today at the Usman DanFodio University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto during the 20th annual general meeting and scientific conference of the Association of Paediatric Surgeons of Nigeria (APSON).
The monarch noted that as a profession that caters for human health, it should have exhausted all available channels of dialogue before embarking on the strike.
He said: “I’m a firm believer of dialogue. Let me ask you as a doctor, you took the Hippocratic oath to save lives, how will you feel when your patients die because you are on strike?”
The Sultan maintained that the strike is not a last resort, adding that the resident doctors should have consulted people like them who have the ear of the government before embarking on strike.
