By our reporter/ The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its nationwide two months old strike.
The doctors embarked on strike on August 2 over “irregular payment of salaries”, among other issues and all efforts including that of President Muhammadu Buhari to persuade them call off the action failed.
Not even a ruling by the national Industrial court, in a ruling asking the resident doctors to return to work could persuade them.
However, Godiya Ishaya, NARD president, on Monday announced that the association has officially called off the strike and will resume work on Wednesday.
According to him, the decision to call off the strike was made in an emergency meeting with the association’s national executive council.
He said, “We’ve officially suspended the strike to resume 8:00 am on Wednesday. We made the decision in the wee hours of today. We held an emergency meeting from 5:30pm on Sunday to the morning hours of today, and the NEC decided that having reviewed the progress made so far, the strike should be suspended”.
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