After a seven-day nationwide warning strike to protest the kidnapping of their colleague, Dr. Ganiyat Popoola, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has instructed its members to return to work on Monday, September 2.
NARD, however, said that it will assess the federal government’s progress in addressing its demands over the next three weeks with a view to determining the next course of action.
In response to the kidnapping of Dr. Popoola, an ophthalmology registrar at the National Eye Centre in Kaduna, along with her husband and nephew on December 27, 2023, Persecondnews recalls that NARD launched a seven-day warning strike last Monday.
Although her husband was freed in March 2024, Dr. Popoola and her nephew are still in captivity.
The government had on Thursday last week threatened to invoke the “no work, no pay” policy for the striking resident doctors.
But NARD said they were unmoved by the threat.
The NARD President, Dr. Dele Abdullahi, said: “We are suspending the strike now. We will be meeting to review the progress the government has made in the next three weeks.
“We are resuming on Monday, September 2, 2024, at 8 am. The engagement of the government has been a little bit better. But we are hopeful that they will sustain this current line of action.”
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