After a closed-door meeting with major officers of the senate on Tuesday, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors called off their planned nationwide daily protest.
Punch spoke with Emeka Orji, president of NARD.
But Orji has promised a review within the next three days.
There was a gathering of the Senate’s top leaders, including the president, the majority and minority leaders, and the Whip. Therefore, we are postponing the protest scheduled for Wednesday and will reevaluate the situation in three days.
If the government doesn’t give in to the physicians’ requests by Wednesday, they’ll begin holding daily nonviolent protests.
After the federal government ordered the chief medical officers and medical directors of federal tertiary hospitals to begin enforcing the “no work, no pay” policy against the striking doctors, the decision was made.
After the government ignored the doctors’ demands, on July 26 they began an indefinite strike.
The doctors want the one-for-one replacement policy for healthcare workers to be put into effect; for the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria to stop downgrading the membership certificate issued by the West African
Postgraduate Medical and Surgical Colleges; for all salary arrears to be paid immediately; for the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure to be put into effect; for a new hazard allowance to be established; and for the Medical Residency Training Act to be brought home from abroad.
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