The
federal government wednesday suspended the sack of members of the National
Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) pending the conclusion of the ongoing
negotiations on the matter.
This was part of the resolutions reached at the
mediatory meeting initiated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt.
Hon. Yakubu Dogara, between the federal government delegation and leaders of
NARD.
The
Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, was quoted to have suspended the sack
as part of the decision taken at the mediatory meeting with NARD.
According
to Adewole, “We will do everything humanly possible to implement all the
decisions arrived at in this meeting including the fact the circular sacking
Resident doctors be ignored by all the parties concerned.”
At the meeting, it
was reported that the “Ministry of Health was to come up with list of those
entitle to skipping and the amount and when they will pay them in one
week. Forty two institutions that have not been implementing skipping should be
asked to commence implementation immediately.
“Committee
of Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) to meet in one week and implement skipping by
June and any CMD that is unable to pay should appear at the next meeting on
July 14. The judgment of the Industrial Court must be executed.
“That
by first week of July, guidelines on Residency Training will be made
available.”
Part
of the resolutions also include “entry point for House Officers should be from
Commess 9 step 4. Or 1 step 1. It should be implemented immediately by the CMD.
They should also start implementing pensions immediately Resident Doctors
Association to make available records of all those sacked unfaily to the
ministry of Health.
Minister of Health should issue circular to CMDs to review
the issue of those sacked unfairly without recourse to the earlier circular
detailing the template to be followed. Circular to be send out on June 22,
2016, by the minister to all health institutions and Federal Medical Centres
(FMCs) running the Residency programme.”
The
issue of FMC Owerri, Imo State, was also revisited, as NARD “appealed to
minister to take a second look at it since doctors did not declare strike
abinitio.”
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