Tobias Sylvester
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have threatened to embark on strike if the Federal Governemt fails to meet their agreement within two weeks.
According to Punch, the doctors asked the federal government to implement agreements concerning their demands within the next two weeks or face industrial action.
The resident doctors made this known in a communique issued on Saturday at the end of their Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting held in Abeokuta, Ogun state.
The meeting which held from Thursday, April 27 to Saturday was predicated upon burning issues affecting the welfare of the doctors and the alarming rate of flight of doctors and other healthcare workers on account of poor remuneration, grossly inadequate funding of the health sector, and the attendant negative effect on the citizens and the health workers.
The doctors are demanding an immediate increment in the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure to the tune of 200 per cent of the current gross salary of doctors in addition to the new allowances included in the letter written by the association to the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire on July 7, 2022, on the review of CONMESS.
KanyiDaily recalls that FG recently said it is planning to engage Nigerian doctors and nurses, who have migrated abroad and connect them with universities and hospitals across the country.
