The President of the Nigeria Medical Association, Dr. Kayode Obembe, on Monday vowed that doctors would not end their ongoing strike unless the Federal Government paid six out of the 12 months arrears of allowances owed them.
The president of the NMA, who disclosed this while meeting with the House of Representatives Committee on Health, said the association was expecting a circular from the National Salaries and Wages Income Commission on the issue of entry steps for House Officers.
Represented by Dr. Titus Ibekwe, NMA’s First Vice-President, Obembe said the association was expecting a circular from the NSWIC on the issue of entry steps for House Officers.
Obembe explained that it was agreed at a meeting with government that a body for collective bargaining be set up.
He said the issue of relativity and skipping had not been addressed and that he would discuss with members of the association on the position of government.
The meeting between the lawmakers and the NMA however was deadlocked as the doctors insisted that their demands must be met.
Speaking at the meeting, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, appealed to the NMA to suspend its two-week-old strike.
Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, the Chairman of the House committee on Health, who delivered Tambuwal’s message, made the call at the resumed meeting of the committee with the stakeholders in the health sector.
Elumelu said Tambuwal was discussing with President Goodluck Jonathan on how to end the lingering strike and urged the doctors to suspend the strike to save Nigerians who were in dire need of their services.
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