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Resident doctors begin nationwide strike
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The association made the resolve on the strike action after its national executive council meeting which ended in the early hours of Monday in Abuja.
Some of NARD’s demands are the payment of the salary arrears of its members in federal and state health institutions and the upgrade of its members who have met the requisite criteria for promotion.
Earlier, NARD had issued a warning to the government in July, that it would commence an indefinite strike if its demands were not met.
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“Neither the federal nor state governments has shown commitment to the resolution of issues at stake nor honoured previous agreements,” Olusegun Olaopa, president of NARD University College Hospital, Ibadan, had said in a statement.
“Consequent upon this, the association resolved to proceed on a total indefinite industrial action from Monday, September 4, 2017, until all these issues are permanently resolved.
“Nationwide pre-strike protests against this injustice are to hold in all our branches and states of the federation on August 30, 2017.
“All heads of tertiary health institutions who have received funding for payments to our members should be directed to pay same immediately.”
Meanwhile, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is at present on strike over the failure of the government to also meet its demands, which include the payment of the earned allowances of its members.
