Just in: Resident doctors to commence nationwide strike on Monday

RESIDENT doctors in the country will begin nationwide industrial action on Monday, their umbrella body under the aegis of National Association of Resident Doctors,NARD,has declared.

The organisation in a communique it released Friday, in Abuja,said it has resolved to commerce an indefinite strike with effect from Monday September 7 2020.

To forestall the development,it demanded immediate payment of the medical residency training funding to all its members as approved in the revised 2020 budget; provision of genuine group life insurance and death in service benefits for all health workers; payment of the outstanding April/May and June COVID-19 inducement allowance to all health workers and determination of the revised hazard allowance for all health workers as agreed in previous meetings with relevant stakeholders.

In the communique issued by NARD at the end of its virtual National Executive Council meeting held on September 2 and signed by its President, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba and Publicity Secretary, Dr. Stanley Egbogu, it also demanded immediate payment of the salary shortfalls of 2014, 2015 and 2016 and payment of all arrears owed our members in federal and states tertiary health institutions, arising from the consequential adjustment of the national minimum wage.

Doctors working under the various tertiary health institutions, the union said, should be placed on appropriate salary grade level and universal implementation of the Medical Residency Training Act of 2017 in all that tertiary health institutions.

NARD said despite the inclusion of the residency funding in the revised 2020 budget the government has not made plans to implement the payment despite several promises by several stakeholder

While accusing the Federal Government of failing to procure group life insurance and death in service benefits for all health workers, NEC sais that though an agreement has been reached between the government and stakeholders in the health sector to pay COVID-19 inducement allowance for six months (April – September), payment was only commenced for April, May and June in some institution and the process abandoned.

The communique reads “NEC observed the insincerity of the government in determining the revised hazard allowance for all health workers which was supposed to commence in September 2020.

“NEC noted non-payment of the outstanding salary shortfall of 2014, 2015, 2016 under the guise of the so called appeal of the National industrial Court decision that granted the judgement in favor of the payment in the first place by Federal Ministry of health.

“NEC observed the plight of her members in state tertiary hospitals such as the non-domestication and non-implementation of medical residency training Act at the state level, the non-implementation of appropriate salary structure, and the non-payment of owed salaries.

“NEC resolved to proceed on an indefinite nationwide strike action from Monday September 7 2020 by 8:00am until the conditions are met.

Breaking: ASUU suspends 2-week warning strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has suspended its two-week warning strike it declared last week across all public universities in the country. The union announced the suspension on Wednesday at a press conference held at its headquarters in Abuja. President of ASUU, Chris Piwuna, who read a prepared speech before newsmen, explained that the development followed intervention by the Senate and some other well-meaning Nigerians. However, he sad the National Executive Council of the Union resolved to give the government a one-month window to address all contending areas.

JUST IN: If Tinubu Had Told Me, I Wouldn’t Have Agreed To Rivers State Of Emergency Rule – Wike

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Woman Burned to Death, Accused of Kidnapping 7yrs Old Boy in Delta

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