NARD had embarked on nationwide strike on Monday to press home its demands for payment of hazard allowance, group life insurance, payment of minimum wage consequential adjustment, among others.
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The NARD President, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba, announced this on Monday in Abuja at a news conference
This is not the first that that the Speaker would intervene in such a matter as he had last year held several meetings with the Resident Doctors and other health workers union, and convinced them not to embark on a planned strike at the time.
The association disclosed this in a communique issued at the end of it National Executive Council meeting, a copy of which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Abuja.
According to some reports, an estimated 35,000 Nigerian doctors are practising abroad, out of the 72,000 registered with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria
Dogara said this on Thursday when he hosted the representatives of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria, who visited him in the National Assembly
Dr. Segun Olaopa, the President of the UCH branch of the National Association of Resident Doctors, disclosed this development at a news briefing.
Senator Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment said this in an text messages forwarded to Labour correspondents on Thursday morning in Abuja.
A statement by the President of the NARD, Dr. Onyebueze John, in the early hours of Thursday confirmed the development
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the NEC scheduled to hold the meeting at 8 p.m on Wednesday in the FCT-Abuja to assess government response to the demands made by the association.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the federal government in a meeting with the leadership of NARD which held on September 6, agreed to pay the arrears of salaries latest by September 8.
He recalled that the president of the association and its delegates met with the Minister of Labour and Productivity on September7, on the resolution of the industrial action.
It noted that the resolution of issues in contention with members of the National Association of Resident Doctors would open up a chain of industrial actions by other unions and associations in the health industry.
The Federal Government had on Wednesday signed a new Memorandum of new Terms of Agreement with the Doctors, with NARD promising to reach out to the general body and then make its position known on Friday
Dr. Jones Taiwo, the Head of Clinical Services of the centre, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lokoja.
Taiwo said the services of the consultants were complemented by 32 intern doctors and 33 NYSC doctors.
Nwogu made the call in an interview with newsmen at the side-line of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Councillors 2017 Special Fellowship Course on Thursday in Abuja.
The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria has accepted to present outcome of re-negotiated Memorandum of Terms of Settlement…
The doctors, operating under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors, after the meeting, which began at about 2:30pm on Wednesday and ended at 12:30am on Thursday, insisted that their salaries must be paid before they will call off the strike
The NAN Correspondent who visited the UUTH reports that the patients were seen loitering around the hospital premises.
Aliyu Sani, who brought his wife for antenatal care on Wednesday, noted that the strike was doing more harm than good, as patients were left for hours without doctors attending to them.