Doctors Strike: FG To Meet Medical Practitioners Today

The Federal Government and the National Association of Resident Doctors, will today, Friday meet to address the ongoing strike action that the doctors have embarked on.

This was disclosed by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan, adding that this is an invite to journalists on Thursday.

He said that the meeting would be held at the ministry and will be chaired by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, and it would be attended to by resident doctors and representatives of the Federal Government.

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The medical workers had expressed lack of confidence in the Memorandum of Action earlier signed with the FG and this led to the breakdown of the agreement.

The union, after its executive meeting, accused the Federal Government of insincerity and dismissed the MOA, describing it as a plot by the government to hold back the NARD.

But Ngige insisted that the Federal Government had not only substantially met the seven-point demand of the NARD, “it has also demonstrated transparency in their implementation.’’

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The Minister added that the House Officers have started receiving their payments in the Federal Government teaching hospitals and federal medical centres across the federation.

He said by the close of work on Thursday, all doctors would have been paid as the officers at the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation worked even during the Easter public holidays to effect the payment.