Another strike looms as resident doctors meets tomorrow

The National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) has scheduled an extraordinary National Executive Council meeting for Saturday, warning that it may not be able to guarantee continuous industrial harmony.

The meeting followed the expiration of the 21day ultimatum given to government to recall of all sacked residents doctors in Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) and meet all outstanding agreement contained in the September 6, 2017 Memorandum of Terms of Settlement.

The threat is coming as the Joint Health Sector Union ( JOHESU) and Assembly of Health Care Professionals ended their strike which frustrated health services in government hospitals across the country.

Addressing journalists in Kaduna yesterday, the NARD publicity and social secretary, Dr. Ugochukwu A. Eze, said “NARD has done all that was required to help solve the problem in JUTH through extensive advocacy. The September 2017 strike was suspended to allow government complete implementation of the terms of settlement but there are still unmet government.”

It may also interest the general public to know that the members of JOHESU have been on strike for over 44 days and health care has been anchored upon the shoulders of resident doctors,” he said.

He therefore appealed to the public to impress on government to reciprocate the good will of the resident doctors and solve their problems.

Residency training programme is a programme where specialist doctors are trained to guarantee availability of Specialist Health Services in the country and minimize brain drain. agreements by the