The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) says its members will not be embarking on industrial action.
The association’s President, Dr Innocent Orji, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria .
The letter was titled “Imminent Nationwide Industrial Disharmony in Health Sector: A Matter of Urgent Administrative Importance”. Also, non-payment of the consequential adjustment of minimum wage to some of its members, delay in the upward review of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure , salary arrears of its members in State Tertiary Health Institutions running into several months, including Abia, Imo, Ondo, Ekiti and Gombe States.
“However, many of them remain largely unresolved and have now become sources of serious nationwide agitation threatening industrial peace and harmony in the health sector. “Sir, we trust in your fatherly disposition and believe that you will come to our aid and save this nation from this imminent industrial disharmony.”
“The NEC, however, wishes to remind the government of the few persons yet to be paid the nine months arrears,“The NEC urges the government to hasten efforts to complete these payments to avoid the recurrence of these issues in future“The NEC asks the Federal Government to urgently pay the skipping arrears for 2014, 2015, and 2016, as well as the shortfall from the consequential adjustment of the minimum wage to deserving members as the patience of the association isThe association also demanded...
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