Resident doctors across the country are set to commence an indefinite
strike beginning on Monday, 7th of September 2020, as the government
has failed to fulfill its sundry promises pertaining to the overall
welfare of healthcare workers in the country.
Apart from citing the non-payment of the outstanding salary shortfall
of 2014, 2015, 2016, the National Association of Resident Doctors,
NARD, said the government was insincere in its promise concerning the
revised hazard allowance for all health workers, which was supposed to
commence in September 2020.
The President of NARD, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba, made this known in a
statement yesterday in Abuja.
He said, the National Executive Council meeting of the Nigerian
Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, held virtually on the 2nd of
September 2020, to review the 21-day ultimatum issued to government
which elapsed 17th of August 2020, observed the insincerity of the
government in determining the revised hazard allowance for all health
workers, which was supposed to commence in September 2020.
NEC noted that in spite of the inclusion, the residency funding in the
revised 2020 budget, the government has not made a plan to implement
the payment despite several promises by several stakeholders.
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