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Resident Doctors Begin Nationwide Strike Amid COVID-19 Surge

August 1, 2021
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Members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have unanimously agreed to embark on an indefinite strike from Monday August 2, 2021.

NARD noted that Federal Government failed to honour and implement the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) it signed with them after over 100 days.

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The doctors made this decision during a National Executive Council (NEC) meeting by over 50 members across the country.

Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, President of NARD, after the meeting announced an immediate withdrawal of the circular removing House Officers from the scheme of service, which was not implemented.

The statement read in part, “We are embarking on a total and indefinite strike on August 2, 2021 [Monday]. You can recall we had a memorandum of action on March 31, 2021, and had an addendum to it on April 9, and since then, we still have had irregularities in the payment of salaries to the house officers.

“We had issues with them being non-regular payment and as part of the memorandum of action, it was said that they should be captured back into the IPPS platform.”

The strike is coming at a very critical period when the nation is currently experiencing a rise in COVID-19 infections amid the third wave of the pandemic.

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