Health staff, organized underneath the Joint Health Sector Unions and the Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations, are presently staging a protest on the Unity Fountain in Abuja.
The demonstration is alleged to be towards the proposed Health Sector Regulatory Bill, which is earlier than the National Assembly.
The well being staff are towards the invoice, stating that if allowed to move, it will topic each medical occupation to the regulation of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
They declared that well being professions have their regulatory our bodies, and that the brand new invoice was in search of to make different well being professionals second-class to medical docs.
The protesters additionally plan to go to the National Assembly, the place they hope to current their case to lawmakers.
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