Tajudeen Abbas, Speaker of the House of Representatives, is currently meeting with members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD).
Gatekeepers News reports that the meeting is taking place at the national assembly, Abuja.
Nnamdi Ndi-Ezuma, first vice-president of NARD; Okokon Udo, permanent secretary, ministry of finance special duties, are among those attending the meeting.
The purpose of the meeting is to address and find a solution to the imminent strike by resident doctors.
In May, resident doctors embarked on a five-day warning strike due to the federal government’s refusal to meet the association’s demands.
Early in July, NARD issued a two-week ultimatum to the government for the implementation of all its demands.
Some of the demands include massive recruitment of clinical staff in hospitals; immediate infrastructural development in hospitals and an allocation of at least 15% of budgetary provisions to health.
Others are immediate payment of the 2023 medical residency training fund (MRTF); and the immediate increment in the consolidated medical salary structure (CONMESS) to the tune of 200% of the gross salary of doctors.
More to follow…
