 The National Association of Resident Doctors has begun a nationwide strike over poor welfare of its members. The association is also accusing the federal government of failure to implement the memorandum of action signed with the government in March of 2021. Plosive Africa's Annetta Felix files in this report from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. At such a time as this, when a pandemic is ravaging and Nigeria is not exempted from the battle, this octogenarian has come to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital for medical attention only to be disappointed. The resident doctors are not backing down in their resolve to embark on a nationwide strike. The president of the Association of Resident Doctors at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Luth, Dr Olufa Mijimo, lists what they are clamoring for and why they have resorted to the strike. The issue of welfare of our members, emerging a doctor that has not been paid for almost six months, the kind of healthcare that such a doctor we deliver to patients is questionable. Some of our colleagues that died during the COVID-19 pandemic, that's what we call the debt in service insurance benefits that are supposed to be paid to their loved ones, their nests of kin. As we speak now, nothing has been done in that regard. Dr. Mijimo warns that resident doctors who fail to comply with the call for industrial action will be penalized and backlisted as saboteurs. But then, what would it take to call off the strike? It is expected that for further agreement to have signed a document which they understand fully well, we expect them that they should fulfill that agreement so that we can go back to work. Speaking on PLOS TV's breakfast show, the second vice president of NAAD laments the effects of the poor well-fed doctors on brain drain in Nigeria. This doctor, would you pay 15,000 Naira in Lagos State and you want to stay in Nigeria? We don't have a brain drain anymore. We have a brain storm. And it's so annoying that either that one day in this country, people would wake up and you would not see doctors in Nigeria. Across the clinics, wards and theatres at the Lagos University teaching hospital Luth, NAAD doctors are nowhere to be found. Originally the first point of call when patients come knocking, this vital force in Nigeria's healthcare system are determined to continue striking onto the government as seeds to their demands. And Neta, Felix, PLOS TV Africa.