National Assembly To Meet Striking Resident Doctors On Friday
The President of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, Dr. Emeka Orji, says the National Assembly has invited the association for a meeting on Friday.
Dr Orji stated this in Abuja on Thursday.
The Resident Doctors across 79 tertiary health facilities in Nigeria commenced a five-day warning strike on Wednesday to press home their demands.
The doctors are demanding an immediate increment in the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure to the tune of 200% of the current gross salaries of doctors.
They also want immediate massive recruitment of clinical staff in the hospitals, and immediate withdrawal of the bill seeking to compel medical and dental graduates to render five-year compulsory services in Nigeria before being granted full licences to practise.
The Doctors want the immediate implementation of CONMESS, domestication of the Medical Residency Training Act, and review of hazard allowance by all the state governments as well as private tertiary health institutions where any form of residency training is done; among others.
NARD said work would resume on Monday, May 22, 2022, by 8 am, local time.
Dr. Orji said the Nigerian Government had invited the doctors for a meeting.
Medical services have been paralysed in government hospitals nationwide since the doctors began their five-day warning strike.
PUNCH/ Mercy Chukwudiebere
