The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Sunday suspended its five-day nationwide warning strike.
NARD’s National President, Dr. Emeka Orji said work resumes today by 8 am 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 8 am tomorrow (Monday). Progress made will be reviewed on 2nd June 2023, during our general meeting where the next line of action will be decided”.
Under NARD’s auspices, the doctors began a five-day warning strike in public health facilities across the country last Wednesday. Some of their demands included 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 per cent of the budgetary provisions to health in line with the Abuja declaration of 2001, and immediate increment in the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, to 200 per cent of the gross salary of doctors, among others.
