The Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors has said its nationwide strike scheduled to commence today (Monday) will go ahead because the Federal Government has yet to invite its leadership for a meeting.

NARD said the Nigerian Medical Association, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives and others should support the struggle for upward review of its hazard allowance from the paltry sum of N5,000.



The National Publicity Secretary, Dr Stanley Egbogu, told The PUNCH on Sunday that the government had not invited NARD for a meeting despite notifying them.

He said, “The Federal Government has not invited us to a meeting after we notified them that we will be proceeding on strike. We have directed all our members across the country both federal and state institutions to recommence the strike we suspended on June 22, 2020.

“We call on all other unions in the health sector, the NMA, PSN, NANNM to support this struggle for upward review of our hazard allowance from the paltry sum of N5,000.

“The truth is that the current hazard can’t be compared to the daily risks of hazard we face every day from the current coronavirus to the Hepatitis B and C viruses. The risks is just too much for N5,000.”

Recall that NARD had resolved to commerce an indefinite strike with effect from Monday September 7 2020.


The organisation was demanding payment of the medical residency training funding to all its members as approved in the revised 2020 budget and payment of the outstanding April/May and June COVID-19 inducement allowances to all health workers, among others.

https://punchng.com/resident-doctors-begin-strike-today-woo-other-health-workers/

As insincere as the Nigerian government

Na wao

na wa oooooooooo they should kuku kill us

Even our minister of health didn't know how much health workers get as hazard allowance and was embarrassing himself in national TV

Good one, this government has embezzled alot of fund in the name of covid19, but the real health workers out there in every hospital did not get much other than 50 percent allowance for only two months.

Whats that for?

Let the strike continue....

But why is this not on front page, has Seun, Lalasticlacla signed MOU with the govt as to not to make this kind of news grace front page?