The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has held an emergency closed-door meeting on to decide its next move, barely a week into its nationwide strike.
The conclusion reached at the meeting would be announced on Tuesday.
NMA had resorted to a strike action over an alleged breach of agreements with the Federal Government.
On Monday members of the association had begun a marathon meeting, where important decisions concerning the health sector, was billed to be discussed.
As early as 8am, journalists had laid ambush to major hotels and conference centers in Abuja to ascertain the venue of the meeting.
The doctors had refused to disclose the venue of the meeting.
Several calls and text messages sent to the President of NMA, Dr. Kayode Obembe, to ascertain the venue of the meeting and the need for keeping it shrouded in secrecy were not replied.
Sources said the meeting commenced by 6pm on Monday and would was expected to run till the early hours of Tuesday.
A short message service from the National Headquarters of NMA on Monday invited journalists to a press briefing scheduled for 11am on Tuesday.
The federal government had on Friday expressed optimism that the strike by the NMA would be called of on Monday at the end of the association’s EDM.
“I also want to remind all health workers that the ethics of their professions dictate that at all times emergency care must not be denied to those that need them,” the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu had told journalists on Friday .
