Tag: resident doctors
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Resident doctors suspend nationwide industrial action
The National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has called off the nationwide strike it embarked on to press home demands for improved welfare. The doctors began the nationwide strike last Monday. The doctors had demanded immediate payment of the Medical Residency Training funding to all its members as approved in the revised 2020 budget; provision…
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Resident doctors may begin fresh strike on Aug 17
The National Association of Resident Doctors has given the Federal Government three weeks to address its demands or its members would recommence their suspended strike on Monday, August 17, 2020. While demanding the payment of COVID-19 hazard allowance to members which, it said, was long overdue, NARD called on government and the National Assembly to…
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BREAKING: Ondo sacks Resident doctors
The Ondo State Government has approved the termination of Resident doctors at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMETH). Their sack was announced in a letter announcing the suspension of the institution residency training programme from August 1st, 2020 It urged all Resident doctors directly employed by the hospital to seek continuation of their…
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BREAKING: Resident doctors call off nationwide strike
The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended the nationwide strike with effect from Monday 22, June 2020. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports NARD announced the suspension on Sunday in Abuja after a meeting by its National Executive Council meeting. According to NARD’s President, Dr. Aliyu Sokomba, the association took the decision in order to allow…
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BREAKING: UCH Resident Doctors’ President tests positive for Coronavirus
The President of Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Dr Adedayo Williams, has tested positive for Coronavirus. Williams disclosed this in a WhatsApp message he sent to his colleagues and obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday. The UCH spokesperson, Mr Toye Akinrinlola,…
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Strike: FCTA threatens resident doctors of mass sack
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) on Thursday in Abuja, issued a 24-hour ultimatum to striking resident doctors to resume work or face mass sack. The FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramatu Aliyu, who issued the ultimatum at a news conference, explained that the decision was reached after an emergency meeting of top management staff…
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Resident doctors commence indefinite strike
Resident doctors at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospitals, Akure in Ondo State, embarked on an indefinite strike over unpaid salaries. The angry doctors gathered at the hospital complex, displaying placards with various inscriptions showing their grievances. Some of the inscriptions read: “We are asking for what we have worked for”, “a hungry doctor…
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Strike: Gbajabiamila brokers truce between FG, resident doctors
From Jonas Ike, Abuja The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has brokered a truce between the Federal Government and the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), which saw the association extending the suspension of its planned strike action. The Speaker had last week through a member of the House appealed…
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Why we can’t pay resident doctors – LUTH
…as doctors embark on strike As resident doctors at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, on Thursday embarked on an indefinite strike, the hospital management said shortfall in its allocation led to nonpayment of the doctors’ salaries. LUTH Public Relations Officer, Mr. Kelechi Otunme, made this known in an interview with the News Agency…