BREAKING: FG sets up committee as resident doctors agree to end strike

Following the recent agreement to call off strike by resident doctors, the Federal Government has set up a committee to smoothen out the payment of the doctors by removing the irregularities in the process.

However, the creation of the committee is part of ongoing efforts to resolve the payment dispute between the government and the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), which led to the ongoing industrial action by the association.

Moreso, the announcement was made by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige at the end of a meeting between the representatives of the federal government and NARD.

According to the minister, the meeting agreed to set up the committee after noting “the payment of House Officers’ salaries experienced some irregularities as double payments were made to some officers in some centres, while a few have not been paid as of date.”

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Ngige, however,  said the five-man committee created was given 72 hours from Saturday, 10th April to produce a valid list of names of House Officers to the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), via the Federal Ministry of Health.

He hoped that with this and other understandings reached, NARD would give “this conciliation process a chance for industrial peace by calling off the strike which commenced on 1st April 2021.”

Adding his view, NARD president Dr Okhuaihesuyi Uyilawa, said the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Association would relay the outcome of the meeting to their members “with the hope of calling off the strike tomorrow.