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NARD gives FG ultimatum to resolve lingering payment issues or face Nationwide chaos in health sector

By Joyce Remi-Babayeju

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has warned of an imminent industrial disharmony in the health sector if the Federal Government fails to resolve the myriad of lingering CONMESS payment and other related issues affecting it’s members.

This was contained in a letter from NARD to the Munister of Health Dr. Ehanire Osagie and other key government Ministeries.

The Association stated that the warning was in view of an ultimatum issued to the Federal six months ago concerning lingering unresolved issues affecting it’s members which includes delay in the upward review if the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, CONMESS,, review of Medical Residency Training Fund, MRTF, Outstanding payment of arrears of the new hazard allowance.

Other grievances include non payment of the skipping arrears for 2014, 2015 and 2016, non-payment of the consequential adjustment of minimum wage to some of members.

Salary arrears of our members in State Tertiary Health Institutions running into several months, including Abia, Imo, Ondo, Ekiti and Gombe States, and non-domestication of the Medical Residency Training Act (MRTA) in most states across the Federation.

According to NARD these unresolved issues have now become sources of serious nationwide agitation threatening industrial peace and harmony in the health sector.

The Resident Doctors appealed to the Federal Government to take the necessary steps to resolve the issues bedeviling to health sector before it’s January 2023 National Executive Council Meeting slated for 24th to 28th or face an immediate Nationwide industrial disharmony in the health sector.

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