Resident Doctors To Commence Five-Day Warning Strike Tomorrow

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), which represents resident physicians, has decided that a five-day warning strike will begin on Wednesday.

News reporters learned that the physicians’ decision to go on the warning strike was motivated by the federal government’s refusal to accede to their requests.

Recall that on April 29, 2023, NARD gave the federal government a two-week deadline to comply with its demands or face labor unrest.

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However, it was discovered that the two-week deadline expired on Saturday, May 13, 2023.

In light of this, the doctors decided to start the warning strike following their six and a half hour long special National Executive Council meeting held digitally on Monday.

The strike, according to the group, will start at 8 am on May 17 and end at 8 am on May 22.

According to Newsmen, Dr. Emeka Orji, the president of NARD, stated that both emergency and clinical hospital activities would be affected by the whole strike.

Orji claimed that in spite of the administration being given an ultimatum that concluded on May 13, the government refused to discuss the requests of the doctors.

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The immediate withdrawal of the bill that would require medical and dental graduates to perform five years of compulsory service in Nigeria before being granted full license to practice is one of the demands made by doctors. Another is the immediate increase in the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure to the tune of 200% of the current gross salaries of doctors.

The quick implementation of CONMESS, the domestication of the Medical Residency Training Act, and a review of the hazard allowance by all state governments and private tertiary health institutions where any sort of residency training is done are further demands.

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