Hope Rises as Resident Doctors Meet Senate Leadership to End Two Week Old Strike

Hope rises on Tuesday night on the possibility of resident doctors suspending their two week old strike, which is biting hard on federal tertiary hospitals,  later today.

National president of the National Association of Resident Doctors, Dr Emeka Orji, raised the hope after leading a delegation of the association to meet with the leadership of the senate at the national assembly in Abuja.

Orji at the end of the meeting told newsmen that it was fruitful, and hopeful that the national executive council of the association may suspend the strike latest today.

Also speaking to newsmen, the senate president, Godswill Akpabio, thanked the Resident Doctors for considering the call to end the strike.

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Akpabio promised that the national assembly would work with the incoming health minister to meet the demands of Resident Doctors.

The demands of the Resident Doctors include the release of the 2023 Medical Residency Training Fund, a circular on one-for-one replacement of doctors and health workers who had migrated abroad.

Other demands are the upward review of the consolidated medical salary structure, the payment of the outstanding hazard and skipping allowances as well as arrears of the consequential adjustment of national minimum wage.