General practitioners suspend the planned nationwide strike

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has suspended its plan to start a nationwide strike.

The decision to halt the planned action came after the association’s National Executive Committee meeting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, where the process was reviewed.

The doctors had threatened a nationwide strike earlier in January over the government’s inability to meet their demands.

The doctors are seeking an upward revision of the medical residency training fund as they kicked against the non-payment of outstanding arrears of the new risk fee, as well as the non-payment of the resulting minimum wage adjustment to some of its members.

Channels Television reported that at the end of the NEC meeting, the doctors praised the federal government for the timely publication of the revised circular on the medical residency training fund.

The committee also praised Labor and Employment Minister Chris Ngige for other steps taken to improve the well-being of its members.

However, the doctors asked the federal government to pay all other arrears to its members.

They also appealed to the Nigeria Governors’ Forum to persuade the governors of Abia, Ekiti, Imo and Ondo states, who they say still owe their members salaries ranging from three months to 25 months.

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