By our reporter| The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its nationwide strike.
President of the association, Dr. Sokomba Aliyu, made the disclosure on Thursday evening.
Sokumba, however, said the union will review the progress made in talks with the Federal Government in two weeks.
The association had commenced an indefinite nationwide strike on Monday, September 7th.
The resident doctors demanded immediate payment of the Medical Residency Training funding to all her members as approved in the revised 2020 budget, and provision of genuine group life insurance and death in service benefits for all health workers, among others.
On Wednesday, the Federal Government and the doctors reached an agreement in a bid to end the industrial action.
During the meeting which almost took the entire day, NARD had disclosed that it will liaise with the executive council with a view to calling off the strike.
Both parties had been in talks to resolve the issues which led to NARD declaring an end to the country-wide strike.
After the meeting, the Federal said an additional N8.9 billion has been approved to pay up a large chunk of the June 2020 COVID-19 allowance to all health workers across the nation,
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