Resident doctors meet over FG’s failed promises
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors said it would hold its National Executive Council meeting next week to rate FG’s efforts in meeting its demands and decide what to do next.
The President of NARD, Dr. Emeka Orji, on Friday, said there had not been any concrete result regarding the doctors’ demands.
“We have not seen the demands being met and we have asked around and we are being told that the process is still ongoing. Ultimately the two-week ultimatum expires today (Friday). So, we will likely call our NEC to brief them.
“The notice of the meeting should come out today (Friday) or tomorrow (Saturday),” Orji said.
Orji noted that not all Chief Medical Directors and Medical Directors have submitted the list for the one-for-one replacement of health workers in health institutions.
“The government has asked CMDs and MDS to send the list regarding one-for-one replacement of health workers but not all of them have submitted the list.
“This directive was given a month ago and if all the lists have not been submitted by now, it means something is wrong somewhere.
“What they are asking from them is not what should take a month to supply. We consider some of our demands as urgent but as it stands, people are still leaving.
“Earlier in the when we asked again, we learnt that not all CMDs and MDs have responded.
“On the 2023 Medical Residency Training Fund, the payment started coming in last week but it is not completed yet, and it is very difficult to tell how many people have received it or not. It is the government that made the template,” he said.
NARD, however, said it would the Federal Government had yet to meet all its minimum demands as agreed before it suspended its strike.
NARD had on August 11, 2023, suspended its 17-day-old nationwide indefinite strike it embarked upon on July 26, 2023, due to the significant moves made by the government to address its demands.
