The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has directed its members to resume work Monday following a five-day nationwide warning strike embarked upon by its members.
The association had embarked on the strike on Wednesday following the failure of the federal government to meet its demands.
Before the strike, NARD had given the government a two-week ultimatum to meet its demands.
NARD, after its three-hour Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting, however, said it would review Federal Government’s commitment to resolving the issues in the next two weeks.
The association on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Government to address the issues raised by the resident doctors.
Recall that the NARD on May 17 embarked on a nationwide strike to press home its demands from the Federal Government.
The doctors are demanding immediate massive recruitment of clinical staff in the hospitals; immediate withdrawal of the bill seeking to compel medical and dental graduates to render five-year compulsory services in Nigeria before being granted full licences to practise; immediate infrastructural development in the hospitals with a subsequent allocation of at least 15 per cent of the budgetary provisions to health in line with the 2001 Abuja declaration.
