The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has directed its members to commence a nationwide strike on Monday.
President of the association, Okhuaihesuyi Uyilawa, issued the directive on Saturday after the NARD national executive council (NEC) meeting in Umuahia, Abia State.
The action is coming about three months after the association suspended the strike it embarked on April 1over the failure of the government to fulfil an agreement signed with the union.
The doctors suspended the strike on April 10, after signing a new agreement with the federal government.
The doctors had on June 24 gave the federal government four weeks to resolve all “pending issues” in the April agreement.
“We are embarking on a total and indefinite strike on August 2, 2021. You can recall we had a memorandum of action on March 31, 2021, and had an addendum to it on April 9, and since then, we still have had irregularities in the payment of salaries to the house officers,” he said.
“We had issues with them, being non-regular payment, and as part of the memorandum of action, it was said that they should be captured back into the IPPIS platform.
“You are aware that we lost 19 members to COVID-19 and death in service insurance was supposed to be paid to their next of kin.
“The last time we met the minister of labour and minister of health, we were told that our members are part of those to be given the insurance benefit, but we found out that their names are not even there.”
