The Doctors in public health institutions across the country will begin a
five-day nationwide strike today. According to the National President
of the Nigerian Medical Association, Dr. Osahon Enabulele, who spoke
with a punch correspondent on Tuesday, he said the Federal Government
had yet to address the association’s demands with the urgency the
situation demands.
Enabulele said though a Memorandum of
Understanding was signed at the meeting between members of the
association and the Federal Government in Abuja on Monday, the
association would not shelve the warning strike.
According to him, they were in a meeting
with government officials from 3pm Monday evening to 5am on Tuesday
morning and all they got was the usual promisory note and MoU to stay
action till January 6, 2014, and the government claimed that most of the
parastatals that would attend to their demands would be on break this
festive period, thus showing that they did not realise the urgency of
the matter and that the NMA would not rescind on its position.”
However, he said the association would
reconvene after the warning strike to discuss the conditions in the MoU.
The striking bodies include the National Association of Resident
Doctors, Nigerian Medical Guild, and Medical and Dental Consultants
Association of Nigeria.
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