Corps members on Thursday replaced the striking doctors in the Federal Medical Centre, Yola.
Report has it that the National Association of Resident Doctors directed its members across the country to embark on a total strike from Aug. 2. This directive was issued on Saturday at the end of the executive meeting of the National Executive Council of the union held in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.
It was gathered some hospitals in Yola reports that Corps members could be seen offering skeletal services to some patients with emergencies.
The NYSC doctors and other senior medical officers also attended to patients with emergency cases.
It was reported that the strike also affected many departments and units, including the Accidents and Emergency units, Paediatric and Intensive Care Units as well as Labour Ward and surgical theatres among other services.
Reacting, Mr Adamu Dodo, Head of Information and Media Relations, FMC, Yola, said that the hospital was not completely shut down due to the strike.
He noted that NARD was only one category of medical doctors.
