The National Association of Resident Doctors has issued a notice of strike effective Monday, June 15, 2020.
The association, the umbrella body of all doctors working in government health facilities, said the call to strike also includes doctors attending to COVID-19 patients and other emergencies.
The National President of NARD, Dr Aliyu Sokomba, disclosed this in an official letter with reference number NARD/SG/2019-2020/070620/246.
The NARD President stated that the strike would be total regardless of the current pandemic.
He said the action is due to the failure of the government to redeem its pledges especially in the areas of salary arrears and working conditions.
The letter read in part, “The strike shall, therefore, be total and indefinite. No service of any kind, be it emergency, care at COVID-19 treatment centres shall be exempted and members including all resident doctors, medical officers below the rank of principal medical officer, and house officers are expected to be part of the strike.”
While sympathising with Nigerians and patients as a whole, the doctors said they could no longer condone government neglect.
NARD said the plight of its members in state health facilities was sometimes worse than those at the federal institutions.
