The National Association of Residence Doctors(NARD) on Sunday said that the association suspended the industrial action to review their position presented to the government in four weeks’ time.
President of the association, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba who disclosed this in an exclusive interview with Blueprint in Abuja said though NARD suspended the action the government has not met all their demands.
The NARD President further said the association believed that the four weeks period is enough to have the government implement other demands of the doctors who needed time to actualise.
He said the hazards allowance was paid to all health care workers, contrary to news making around that is for only medical doctors.
Dr. Sokomba however lamented that the government paid the hazards allowance to 11 hospitals in the country, stressing that other beneficiaries must be capture without further delay.
He said the “strike was suspended this morning, (Sunday) we had a meeting yesterday (Saturday) and we resolve to suspend it for 4 weeks to review our position to know if we have made significant progress or not.
“We have been told that life insurance has been procured for Doctors and other healthcare workers and that it would take time for that to materialise so we felt we should give them the benefits of time to see that materialise.
“Secondly, we also had the demand of the medical residency training up till this moment, we’ve been told it has been captured in the budget and it would require the assent of the president before we would be able to access the Residency funds.
“So we believe that in the next 4 weeks we will be able to know categorically if that is correct or not. So considering a lot of other demands that have been initiated, talking about Hazard allowance which has only been paid to only 11 hospitals and to all healthcare workers unlike what is been contained in News that it is for Doctors, it has been paid to 11 hospitals and we are hoping the government would not renege and ensure it is paid to all those that deserve to be paid hazard allowance.
“So we felt that since a lot of other demands of ours hinge on factors that are not within the reach of those in charge like the signing of the budget, the implementation of the life insurance beyond the payment of the insurance to the insurance company and brokers such that we would need to give more time to listen to the actualization of this demand”.
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