NARD on July 5 issued a two-week ultimatum to the Nigerian Government for the implementation of all its demands.
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Tuesday declared another round of industrial action over its lingering demands that have not been addressed.
NARD on July 5 issued a two-week ultimatum to the Nigerian Government for the implementation of all its demands.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, later held deliberations with the leadership of NARD behind closed doors where he promised to meet with President Bola Tinubu to avert the planned industrial action.
He also announced the setting up of an ad hoc committee to meet with all the stakeholders and address the matter.
The Speaker also appealed to NARD to give the House leadership a two-week period to find solutions to the issues raised.
However in a statement on Tuesday, the doctors in public health facilities declared a “total and indefinite strike action,” Channels TV reports.
The association listed its demands to include the immediate payment of the 2023 MRTF, the immediate release of the circular on one-for-one replacement, and the payment of skipping arrears.
The demands include the upward review of CONMESS in line with full salary restoration to the 2014 value of CONMESS, the payment of the arrears of consequential adjustment of minimum to the omitted doctors, and the reversal of the downgrading of the membership certificate by MDCN.
Other demands are the payment of MRTF, new hazard allowance, skipping and implementation of corrected CONMESS in State Tertiary Health Institutions, and the payment of omitted hazard allowance arrears.