Doctors in Nigerian hospitals work under difficult conditions.
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Increased funding for healthcare system would help the government quell incessant doctors’ strikes .
Students take part in protests in support of the university pensions strikes.
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A strike around a specific employment issue can easily develop a momentum of its own and become a catalyst for a much wider expression of dissatisfaction.
Striking Kenyan nurses take part in a protest in Nairobi.
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A strike by Kenyan nurses points to the country’s failure to manage the devolution of responsibility for health care from national to county governments.
The end of the doctors’ strike in Kenya is a truce in the fight for better health care.
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Kenya’s doctors embarked on a strike for a 100 days to push the government to implement a collective bargaining agreement signed in June 2013.
The nationwide strike by doctors in public health hospitals has crippled the health sector.
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The striking doctors in Kenya have vowed not to resume work until the government meets their demands.
Kenyan student doctors perform a drill during a strike to demand fulfilment of a 2013 agreement between doctors’ union and the government.
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Kenya faces a rising number of major incidents and disasters. Any delays in treating patients could result in increased morbidity and mortality rates.
A Kenyan nurse blows a horn outside the Ministry of Health headquarters during their strike.
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Kenya’s medical workers have downed tools, demanding the implementation of a collective bargaining agreement signed in 2013.
A woman looks down an empty corridor at the National Hospital Abuja, after staff members went on strike to demand for better employee welfare.
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Continued strikes in Nigeria’s health care sector has meant that many patients go without much-needed care.
Time to take the rough with the smooth.
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Listen up junior doctors, here is your survival guide.
Save our foxes: another day, another protest.
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There were more protests in Britain last year than at any time since the 1970s.
More patients die at weekends.
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Jeremy Hunt’s solution to cutting deaths in hospitals at the weekend is to increase staff levels. But is it just a fudge?
Working on a Sunday.
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David Cameron promised a seven days a week GP service by 2020, but without considering the possible knock-on effects