According to Mr Ashimi, members will have no choice but to embark on strike unless the government addresses their concerns.
Government offices, schools and banks were closed in compliance with the industrial action.
The stakeholders observed that the processes leading to the 2023 general elections fell below expectations.
Mr Suleiman commended the police commissioner for timely intervention in saving doctors from assault.
Mr Ashimi lamented the worsening mortality rate across hospitals.
“It’s regrettable that our colleague is still in captivity after 115 days.’’
“I want to tell you that this issue of ridding the health profession of quackery is on the agenda of President Bola Tinubu. Laws are not there to serve as a deterrent.”
The Ondo state chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association issued the threat on Monday at their 2023 Physicians’ Week, held in Akure.
Over the last five years, at least 10 medical practitioners have been kidnapped in Cross River.
Rose Bassey, a former accountant-general of Cross River, and three others have been kidnapped on the Uyanga axis of the Calabar-Ogoja highway.
