Doctors accused government of failure to resolve issues revolving around their welfare and safety and want the matter resolved within 14 days.
The fight against the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic in the country is facing a fresh challenge, following a threat by the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors to call out its members on an indefinite strike.
It said some state governments had chosen this critical and wrong time in the country to slash the salaries of health workers., the President of the NARD, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba, said: “The illegal disengagement of 26 resident doctors at Jos University Teaching Hospital in the face of this pandemic without recourse to the law governing the residency training is one of the paramount issues that we believe should not only be addressed but also an apology issued to those affected.
“This is without prejudice to what is happening in Jos because what is happening in Jos is that the Act was totally abandoned and they illegally disengaged them. “We demand immediate implementation of the revised hazard allowance and payment of COVID -19 inducement allowance. “Like what was recently executed by the Kaduna State Government that cut the salaries of health workers by twenty-five per cent.
“The association is hereby issuing a 14-day ultimatum to government after which the Association shall proceed on a National Total and Indefinite Strike action should our demands remain unmet at the end of the 14 days.”The Association of Resident Doctors of Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital , Sagamu, Ogun State, separately kicked over what it called delay in the payment of members’ salaries, hazard allowances and government poor handling of their plight.
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