Strike: Doctors yet to communicate demands to FG, says Ngige

The Federal Government on Sunday claimed The National Association of Resident Doctors is yet to officially communicate its minimum demands for an end to its 56-day old strike.

The government however, assured that it would make its position known to the doctors once it received such communication from the striking doctors’ umbrella body, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD).

NARD had at the end of its 41st Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Scientific Conference in Bauchi, Bauchi State, at the weekend asked the government to pay the salary arrears of its members on the Government Integrated Financial Management Information System (GIFMIS) within 72 hours.

The other conditions the association gave for its members to resume work are the payments of medical residency training fund (MRTF) for 2020 and 2021 and withheld August and September salaries; payment of the salary arrears and allowances of doctors in state tertiary health institutions and the withdrawal of the court case against it.

Responding to a query by The Nation, Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige said” “We have not gotten that (the 72-hour ultimatum). We have not received their new demands. Let them write their employers, the Minister of Health. Let them also write me.

“We have not seen all those demands. When we see their demands we will then have an answer if it is true.

“They normally send me the communique of their meeting. When we see it we will respond.”

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