Following a private meeting with key senate officials on Tuesday, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors decided to call off its scheduled daily statewide protest.
Emeka Orji, the president of NARD, revealed this to our journalist during a conversation.
However, Orji stated that a review would take place in the following 72 hours.
“We met with the majority and minority leaders as well as the whip. We will now postpone the scheduled demonstration for Wednesday and revisit it in 72 hours.
If the administration does not comply with the requests of the striking doctors, a daily peaceful protest will start on Wednesday.
The decision came after the Federal Government gave the Chief Medical Directors and Medical Directors of federal tertiary hospitals instructions to start enforcing the “no work, no pay” policy against the striking doctors.
On July 26, the doctors began an ongoing strike since the government had not complied with their requests.
The doctors are requesting the following: the immediate payment of all salary arrears; the implementation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure; a new hazard allowance; and the domestication of the Medical Residency Training Act from the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria.
