Hope of averting another crisis in the health sector failed, on Monday morning, as the National Executive Committee (NEC) of National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) rose from its meeting, in Abuja, this morning, voting for total and indefinite strike.

NARD president, Dr. Onyebueze John, in a text message said: “Rising from our NEC meeting, which started by 7:00p.m, on Sunday, and ended 3:00a.m. on Monday, NARD has resolved to reject the promissory offer from Government, and proceed on total and indefinite strike action until all items in her demand list for strike action are resolved by government.”

The association had on Saturday dispelled rumours that it had suspended the planned strike after a meeting with the Federal Government, where a Memorandum of Settlement was reached, pending the outcome of the NEC meeting.

Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole and his Labour and Employment counterpart, Senator Chris Ngige, had met with the resident doctors till the wee hours of Saturday.

The doctors are protesting the failure of government to pay their salary shortfall of 2016 and January to May 2017 and rectify the salary shortfall from August 2017, as well as inability to circularise House Officers’ entry point, among others.

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These Doctors too dey strike abeg, as if they're the only professions propping up the Health Sector. Always whining bout this and that like li'll bittches and snitchs while leaving duty posts to abandon helpless patients to die every time. This is prolly part of why they splintered the unified front NMA had way back and made sure that Non-Medical Staffers were jettisoned and almost lack any reasonable voice now. What if the Nurses decided to keep striking anyhow? Or the radiographers, the pharmacists etc all kept downing tools all the time?

Naija Docs seem not to have another version of the Hippocratic Oath they take here as the practical experience of the medical services here shows that it lacks every semblance to a human face that any institution can have. Some docs have colder hearts than assassins, motherfurkers yet they're full of corny tricks and always eager to strike for money, why una nor go join SARS? Arrears ko, bonus ni...who's govt paying these days sef?

Una Consultants wey dey collect salaries nearly topping a million monthly and you still dey impateintly discharge patients anyhow, preferring to route them to your own private clinics where their NHIS wouldn't save them from your shaving their head raw, God dey see una and your demises won't be painless too.