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Published 8 April 2021
The House of Representatives Committee on Health Care Services on Thursday appealed to striking workers to resume duty.
This is as the committee also issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the Registrar of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Dr Tajudeen Sanusi, to appear before it or risk issuance of an arrest warrant on him.
Sanusi had failed to appear before the committee in Abuja on Thursday, forcing the lawmakers to postpone their investigative hearing on the ongoing nationwide strike by doctors to Friday.
The MDCN was asked to appear before the committee at the new date unfailingly.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige in a meeting with Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors
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Thu Apr 08 2021
The Federal Government has again invited the aggrieved resident doctors who are currently on strike, to another roundtable discussion on how to quell ongoing strike in the health sector.
Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment, through the spokesman of the ministry, Charles Akpan noted that the fresh meeting became imperative due to the havoc the strike is wreaking in the sector.
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Frequent strikes by medical doctors have become a recurring decimal in Nigeria. This trend is seen as a contributory factor to the weakness of our healthcare system. Most worrisome is that an end to this national quagmire appears not to be in sight. On Thursday, April 1, 2021, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) embarked on yet another indefinite strike. The resident doctors commenced the strike just a few moments after signing an agreement with the Federal Government at the office of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige.
Ngige had invited both parties to a conciliation meeting, following a Notice of Trade Dispute sent to his office by NARD. The heated meeting which lasted for about seven hours, extensively and exhaustively deliberated on all the issues raised by the aggrieved doctors, including the non-payment of salaries of some house officers, non-recruitment of house officers and non-payment of National Minimum
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