A deal has been reached between the resident doctors and the federal government about the association’s five-day warning strike.
Following the expiration of a 14-day ultimatum to the government, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) started a five-day warning strike to emphasise its demands.
According to MDB, the doctors want a 200 percent increase above their present gross salary, effective immediately, in the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure.
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Concerned about the situation, the doctors met on Friday to discuss their requests with the Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Health and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige.
This was disclosed in a statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Olajide Oshundun, who said a Memorandum of Understanding was signed at the end of a conciliation meeting convened by Ngige in his office.
The Federal Government has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) and the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), geared towards halting the five-day nationwide warning strike of resident doctors.
In conclusion, the meeting agreed that NARD officers are to present the outcome of the MOU to their members in an emergency meeting within 48 hours with a view to suspending the strike they embarked on last Wednesday, May 17, 2023.
On the issue of doctors omitted in the payment of Minimum Wage Consequential Adjustment, the meeting resolved that doctors should re-present the list on Monday, May 22 to the Ministry of Health, with annexes of the old submission and same copied to the office of the Minister of Labour and Employment.
The resident doctors also expressed worry that their members in Abia State “have been on strike for several months for perennial non-payment of salaries.”
According to the statement, Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) which took the matter to the National Council on Health (NCoH) in Abuja, looked into the matter and asked the Abia State Government to pay up for good health delivery to the people.
