Resident-doctors
Resident doctors resume work today after nationwide strike
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its nationwide strike and asked its members to resume work today.
NARD President, Emeka Orji, said the strike was suspended on Friday evening, adding that the resident doctors would resume work at 8am on Saturday.
“We just suspended the strike. Work to resume at 8am tomorrow. We will review progress made in two weeks,” Orji was quoted as saying by TheCable, an online news portal.
The association embarked on an indefinite strike on July 26 over the failure of the government to implement the demands of its members.
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Parts of the demands include payment of the 2023 medical residency training fund (MRTF); immediate release of the circular on one-for-one replacement and upward review of the consolidated medical salary structure (CONMESS).
Others are payment of outstanding arrears of consequential adjustment, hazard and skipping allowance.
In the wake of the strike, the federal government said it had approved the payment of an accoutrement allowance of N25,000 per quarter to medical and dental doctors in hospitals, medical centres and clinics in the federal public service.
The government also approved a 25 percent increase in the consolidated medical salary structure (CONMESS).
But NARD rejected the allowance and pay increase, calling it “paltry”.
Subsequently, the association announced that its members would go on peaceful nationwide protests from August 9.
But the federal government averted the planned nationwide protest after a meeting with the leadership of the association.
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