The Nigerian government has threatened to invoke the ‘no work no pay rule’ on resident doctors that embarked on an indefinite strike on Monday.
re directed all medical directors in all public hospitals across the country to open a register by 7 a.m. from Wednesday and record ‘those who come to work and those who fail to come to work’.
The government has threatened and implemented the ‘no work, no pay rule’ on striking workers in the past. Following the announcement, Mr Ehanire said the doctors’ decision especially in a time of the coronavirus outbreak may lead to loss of lives. “We are ready to protect the lives of Nigerians; we are not going to allow our hospitals to fallow,” he told journalists.
“They said that they haven’t seen any tangible thing from government and that their accounts were yet to be credited. But I told them that the federal government has paid N2 billion to health workers across board in 14 teaching hospitals and Federal Medical Centres as of Monday,” the minister said. “I don’t want to go into the integrity of the industrial action whether you’re essential services or not, whether you are supposed to go on strike or not, I will only commend you and say go and read your Labour Act and also the ILO regulations on essential services workers of which I know you’re one”, Mr Ngige noted.
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