Nigeria risks an indefinite strike action as they refuse to comply and implement all agreements entered with the Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors (NARD).
The association has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to immediately implement all the agreements entered.
The Ultimatum was issued on Saturday as their Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) themed “Health Inequalities and Social Determinants of Health in Nigeria” held at the known Multipurpose Hall of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH), Bauchi.
The National President, Dr. Sokomba Aliyu lamented that some of its members were intimidated, harassed and maltreated in Lagos, the Kaduna State and FCT in the cause of performing their professional activities.
Some of these doctors were sacked at the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds. Even the Kaduna State government had slashed their salaries by 25 percent, which has brought untold hardship to them and their families.
The association (NARD), therefore, requested that the immediate recall of all those workers sacked by University Teaching Hospital (JUTH ), full payment of their entitlements and the payment of the slashed salaries by the Kaduna State government including the supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other consumables to all health facilities across the country to enable the health workers to perform their professional services with adequate and maximum protection.
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