THE NARD E-NEC and NMA EDM ended with a unanimous vote to continue the strike till all demands are met. 

 

NMA 

The meeting held with the full representation from NARD till the wee hours of this morning with the Minister of Health, Gov Uduagan,  Senator Ifeanyi,  Tony Elumelu in attendance.

 

According to Ben Oranye the general secretary of the association of resident doctors, UCH Chapter:

1) We agreed that Govt should issue circulars addressing DCMAC, CMD, CONSULTANT and DIRECTORSHIP now. The so called MOU was evasive and  still referred us to YayaLe Ahmed committee.

2) We asked that FG should pay us Relativity CONMESS and Skipping from January now and not to attempt to destroy it by granting JOHESU another distortion: The MOU stipulated we should wait till September to get paid. But NARD does not trust GOVT and rejected it and fought on the NMA floor to be steadfast.

Many other issues was addressed and the atmosphere was very tensed and members were close to throwing blows at betrayers or NOC members who tried to play usual politics with the welfare of Nigerian doctors and the future of our profession. The minister left angrily. 

 

NARD 

About 5 demands before this time at our various negotiations before the 3rd as warning strike .

1) FMC Owerri colleagues: This is the only fully met demand of NARD.

2) RESIDENCY EMPLOYMENT LETTER TEMPLATE: The circular and template were released but yet to be implemented. We can not celebrate yet because as typical of most CMD implementing will take sometime or some pressure by local ARD. So until all our members who need it and especially those who have been given letter to leave residency are reversed, our battle has just begun locally for implementation.

3) CONMESS and skipping: It was not satisfactorily addressed.

4) Teaching allowance and Rural allowance not met.

5) IPPIS: GOVT has not solved the problem for us to go back.

 

So added to NMA peculiar demands which were mostly not met but referred to YAYALE Ahmed Committee and SO CALLED MOU, we decided to  continue the strike.

 

Let's be steadfast and focused. 

LONG LIVE NARD

LONG LIVE NMA

LONG LIVE THE NIGERIA PATIENTS

 

Ben Oranye

ARD UCH

GENERAL SECRETARY