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JUST IN… Doctors suspend 62 days old strike, warn govt
Sixty-two days after they embarked on an industrial action, shutting down government-owned hospitals, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its strike, which began on August 2, 2021.
The association said it’s members will resume their duties on Wednesday.
The NARD said it called off the strike because obvious efforts by the Federal Government to fulfil some of its minimum demands, but gave the government six weeks to fulfil its demands after which it will call a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting to review the progress made.
READ ALSO: Nigerian govt urges doctors to return to work as strike continues
The development was made known on Monday by NARD President, Godiya Ishaya, who said the union had officially called off the strike.
According to him, the association decided to call off the strike at an emergency meeting with its national executive council.
“We’ve officially suspended the strike to resume at 8:00 am on Wednesday. We made the decision in the wee hours of today. We held an emergency meeting from 5:30 pm on Sunday to the morning hours of today, and the NEC decided that having reviewed the progress made so far, the strike should be suspended,” he said.
It would be recalled that NARD embarked on industrial action on August 2, over the irregular payment of salaries and remuneration, among other issues.
Ripples Nigeria reported that several stakeholders, including President Muhammadu Buhari, Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige and members of the House of Representatives, had called on the resident doctors to end the strike but to no avail.
Also, the National Industrial Court, in a ruling on a suit filed by the Federal Government, had asked the resident doctors to return to work, but the striking doctors faulted the court’s ruling, vowing to appeal the ruling.
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