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Strike: FG reaches agreement with resident doctors, begins implementing demands Monday

Akinwande Soji-Ojo by Akinwande Soji-Ojo
August 21, 2021
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The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), on Saturday, reached an agreement with the Federal Government, over its ongoing strike.

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The Federal Government agreed to pay N4.8 billion Residency Training Fund in the next seven days.

It also agreed to clear the arrears of the consequential adjustment of the National Minimum Wage from April to December 2019.

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The government, through the Federal Ministry of Health, also said it has forwarded a list from 38 hospitals to the Budget office for inclusion in the Service Wide Vote.

A Memorandum of Action is expected to be signed by all parties involved in the discussion.

The truce was brokered following the intervention of the leadership of the Nigerian Medical Association(NMA), led by Prof. Innocent Uja.

At the meeting, all the consolidated 12-point demand by NARD, the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) and other affiliates of NMA were resolved.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, said the government resumed discussion with the striking doctors at the instance of President Buhari.

In a statement on Saturday morning by the Deputy Director of Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan, Ngige said the President directed him to side step every technicality and re-commence conciliation, especially in the background of the alternative dispute resolution window, provided by the National Industrial Court, where the matter was referred to under the instrument of article 17 of the Trade Disputes Act.

“The National Industrial Court in its wisdom advised that NARD should keep talking with its employers. So we are tapping into this widow of an alternative dispute resolution to ameliorate this situation that is already bad,” the minister said.

Ngige, who addressed journalists before the meeting went into a closed-door session, said they had reached agreements the previous night on all the 12 disputed issues, adding that implementation would start from the next working day (Monday).

Ngige commended Ujah for assuming his role as the leader of all doctors in Nigeria, saying all affiliate doctors’ associations are under the NMA.

“When you talk to the children and they don’t listen well, you talk to their parents. The standing agreement that every negotiation by affiliate associations must be led by the NMA was not observed in the recent past. I therefore commend Ujah for assuming his role as the father of all doctors. I want you to play this role effectively and efficiently,”Ngige said.

He insisted that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has made more investment in the health sector and dismissed insinuations that the non-keeping of agreements by the Federal Government was at the root of incessant doctors’ strike.

The Minister of State for Health, Senator Olorunnimbe Mamora, urged the doctors to end their strike in the interest of the nation as government tackles their demands.

President of NMA, Uja, said the strike was avoidable and blamed some government functionaries for not playing their roles.

He said: “As doctors , we are trained to prevent disease, cure illnesses and promote health but not trained to go on strike.”

He regretted the circumstances that forced the doctors to embark on strike.

The NMA president commended Ngige for going the extra mile to ensure that officers across ministries and agencies who are relevant to tackling the doctors’ demands are put on their toes.

“At the meeting we had on Wednesday , before us , he was calling relevant officers, asking what have you done about this , what have you done about this , what have you done about this? He does his own and also chases others around to ensure that progress is made.

“During the closed door meeting, we tackled and resolved all the 12 point issues such as payment of House Doctors where Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria tabled evidence to show that 2800 doctors have been paid and efforts ongoing to sort the outstanding 144; the N4.8 billion Residency Training Fund which the Budget Office assured would be paid in seven days.

“The arrears of the consequential adjustment of the National Minimum Wage which the meeting agreed, cuts across other sectors but that greater focus must be paid to clearing that of April to December 2019 which has no ambiguity. The Ministry of Health also revealed that as of August 3, 2021, a list from 38 hospitals has been forwarded to the Budget office for inclusion in the Service Wide Vote.

“The meeting also tackled the issue of locum doctors/ emergency and migration to IPPIS, the bench fees and the hazard allowance which it agreed should be out of the negotiation table since the stalemate created by the disagreement between the NMA and JOHESU was responsible for the delay, as the Federal Government already mapped out N37.5B for it.

“The decision of the National Council on Establishment , given effect by the Circular from the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation which excised house doctors and NYSC doctors from the scheme of service was also visited. Also deliberated upon was skipping which is a consequential grade alignment as well as non-payment of three months COVID-19 allowance to some doctors in 2020, and migration of MDCAN to CONUAS among others.

“The meeting adjourned to 10 a.m. this morning, Saturday, August 21, 2021 to streamline agreement reached on all issues, draft and sign the Memorandum of Understanding towards ending the three weeks old strike by NARD,” Ujah said.

The meeting was attended by Permanent Secretaries of the Ministry of Labour and Employment , Dr. Peter Tarfa; Health, Mamman Mamuda; Service Welfare, Office of the Head of Service, Ngozi Onwudiwe;Director General of the Budget Office , Ben Akabueze; Chairman of National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission, Ekpo Nta; representative of the Minister of State, Finance, Budget and Planning; representative of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation; leaders of the NMA, NARD, MDCAN among others.

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