It could be recalled that the NUC had in December last year issued a circular directing all University Vice Chancellors and Registrars, National Postgraduate Medical College not to allow doctors who are not PhD holders to lecture in their respective universities.
The strike action which started on February 23rd, had paralysed academic activities in various universities’ medical colleges across the country.
He said just three days into the strike, it has already started taking tolls on their career pursuit, and therefore urged the government to do the needful to resolve the issue before it gets out of hand.
“We are in the country where all the shuddery and scary epidemiological figures are skyrocketing. The maternal mortality rate is getting higher, insurgency everywhere, endemicity of child under-nutrition is widespread, road traffic accidents are no more once in a blue moon, breast and cervical cancer on the verge of becoming epidemic. With all these, we strongly believe that at this point the country needed us the most” he said.