Barely 48-hours after the National Association of Resident Doctors, (NARD), suspended its 5-day nationwide warning strike, Health Workers on Wednesday protested in the Federal Capital Territory, while threatening to embark on an indefinite strike from midnight if the Nigerian Government fails to meet their demands.
The Informant247 gathered that the workers under the umbrella of the Joint Health Workers’ Union were said to be demanding the payment of hazard allowance, an adjustment in the Consolidated Health Salary Structure as done with Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, while also demanding an end to the discrimination in the health industry among others.
Resident doctors suspend nationwide warning strike, resume work today
The National Association of Resident Doctors, (NARD), has suspended its 5-day nationwide warning strike.
Dr. Emeka Orji, National President of the association, while briefing the newsmen, said that work resumes by today 8a.m., at all federal and state Teaching Hospitals as well as other hospitals where resident doctors are trained.
He said: “Strike has been suspended and work resumes at 8a.m., tomorrow (today). Progress made will be reviewed on June 2. 2023, during our general meeting where the next line of action will be decided.”
It could be recalled that the doctors under the auspices of the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, began a five-day warning strike in public health facilities across the federation on Wednesday last week.
Some of the demands of the doctors include; immediate massive recruitment of clinical staff in the hospitals and abolishment of the bureaucratic limitations to the immediate replacement of doctors and nurses who leave the system, immediate infrastructural development in public hospitals with a subsequent allocation of at least 15 percent of the budgetary provisions to health in line with the Abuja declaration of 2001 and immediate increment in the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, CONMESS, to the tune of 200 per cent of the gross salary of doctors among others.
