9 months after, resident doctors resume suspended strike

By allcitynews.ng

9 months after, Nigerian Resident Doctors under the umbrella of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), are resuming strike from where they stopped in June 2020.

The NARD president, Dr Aliyu Sokomba, who made this known said the Association is embarking on nationwide indefinite strike from Monday 29 March 2021.

He said the doctors decided to embark on strike due to the failure of the government to meet their requests made in June last year.

It would be recalled that NARD members in June 2020 dropped tools of work based unpaid salaries, non-payment of hazard allowance, and a dearth of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in hospitals, among several other reasons.

The one-week-long strike was suspended to give the federal and state governments time to fulfil the outstanding demands following an appeal by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, Kayode Fayemi and other stakeholders.

According to Sokomba, government failed to look into their matter as soon as they suspended that strike since last June till now.

Resident doctors make up a large percentage of doctors in Nigeria’s tertiary hospitals.