HEALTH

Resident doctors shun salary raise, continue strike

Striking Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has opposed the 25 per cent basic salary raise the government offered to them.  At the same time, the body rejected the N25,000 peculiar allowance approved for medical and dental doctors in the federal public service. The federal government approved the raise and allowance following the doctors’ resolve to down tools . However, Emeka Orji, the president of NARD, said NARD’s National Executive Council (NEC) believed the raise is “paltry”

He said, “NEC vehemently rejects the paltry 25 per cent increment in the basic salary of doctors, as well as the accouterment allowance,” adding that the association’s earlier demand is “for full restoration of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure to its right value as at the time of the approval of the structure in 2009.”

He said the strike continues indefinitely “until reasonable progress is made by the government” to address the association’s demands as contained in the ultimatum earlier issued to the federal government

 

Source: Premium Times

 

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