FG Try to Resolve Disagreement Resident Doctor's Strike

In line with this development,Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, along with the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, and officials of the Federal Ministry of Health, are holding a conciliatory meeting with executives of NARD, Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, and other stakeholders on 6th september.

Meanwhile, the National body of the striking doctors has explained the rationale behind the ongoing strike, saying they were tired of hearing “I will do this” from government, even as the Federal Government ordered heads of hospitals to employ part-time doctors as stopgap measure while the strike is in progress. Special Technical Adviser to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Mrs Clara Dike, who disclosed this, said the meeting was expected to address the salient issues around the agitations of the doctors.

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“Doctors are not supposed to go on strike because their profession is among essential services. We are still engaging them and we have commenced moves to get them back to work. We have scaled up the meeting for Wednesday (today) by 1pm. “We have issued them notice and all the stakeholders will be there to meet them, not minding the provisions of Section 18 of the Act that they are on essential services and ought not to go on strike,” she said. Dike who said the strike came as a surprise, noted that the NARD executives had met with the Ministry of Labour last week. She said:

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“They met with us on the 27th of August notifying us that they were about to embark on a strike and the Minister of Labour and Employment held a meeting with them on Thursday, August 31. “We agreed on literally everything they brought on board and we were all on the same page. So, we were surprised that they had to do a U-turn. We were fully confident that they were going to suspend the strike because we agreed on everything being stated.

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Meanwhile, the National body of the striking doctors has explained the rationale behind the ongoing strike, saying they were tired of hearing “I will do this” from government, even as the Federal Government ordered heads of hospitals to employ part-time doctors as stopgap measure while the strike is in progress. Special Technical Adviser to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Mrs Clara Dike, who disclosed this, said the meeting was expected to address the salient issues around the agitations of the doctors.

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