The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has declared a total and indefinite strike, beginning from Wednesday, July 26, 2023, following the federal government’s inability to meet its demands.
NARD President, Dr Emeka Innocent, who made this known in a release said the indefinite strike was at the expiration of the warning strike and different extended ultimatums by the association.
According to him, even the resolutions of the conciliatory meeting chaired by the then Honourable Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, were yet to be implemented, despite the time frame given for their implementation.
The doctor’s major demands include immediate payment of the 2023 MRTF; immediate release of the circular on one-for-one replacement; Payment of skipping arrears; Upward review of CONMESS in line with full salary restoration to the 2014 value of CONMESS; and Payment of the arrears of consequential adjustment of minimum to the omitted doctors.
Other major demands the s are the RTheeversal of the downgrading of the membership certificate by MDCN; Payment of MRTF, new hazard allowance, skipping and implementation of corrected CONMESS in State Tertiary Health Institutions; and Payment of omitted hazard allowance arrears.
