FG begs resident doctors to halt planned strike

The Federal Government has appealed  to the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD)to suspend their plan of embarking on a nationwide strike on Thursday

The Minister of Labour and employment, Chris Ngige, made the appeal at a meeting with the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Wednesday in Abuja.

The Minister begged the doctors to consider the generality of Nigerians as the entire World is battling the COVID-19 pandemic.

he also promised that the government will look into the important issues and get the best out of the situation.

His words: “We are here because we have started solving your issues. We put up proposals with given timelines on how to deal with them.”

“We will look at those proposals with you, fix adequate timelines so that the people on government side will be implementing and marking them as they execute them.

“I have held informal meetings with the finance ministry and they told me they have started solving some of the problems.

“The two committees in the national assembly have also tried to get you and your employers on same page.

“We have to intervene to ensure industrial peace in the health industry. We are also in a very bad period health wise the world over, and Nigeria is not an exception.

“So, we have to think about the generality of Nigerians. Because right now, 80 percent of Nigerians are our patients because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“So we have to look at the issues that way and see how we can get the best out of this situation,” he said.