The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its nationwide strike for six weeks.
The association had embarked on strike on August 2, 2021, to press home its demands on payment of salaries, amongst others.
The suspension of the strike was announced on Monday by the President of the Association, Godiya Ishaya.
According to him, the strike has been suspended with immediate effect from 8am on Wednesday.
Ishaya said, “We are suspending the strike for six weeks to give room for movement in some of the items we noticed a stalemate. There was a stalemate in the enrollment of our members into the IPPIS and payment of their areas.
“The government was invoking the trade dispute article 41, that is the ‘no work, no pay.’ And since they have been enrolled into IPPIS, it means there was not going to be any salary into their accounts. Without them being paid, they won’t get their areas; that was a stalemate we felt we should give a window to see if the government can start paying them salaries and push their areas into their accounts.
“On the issue of ‘no work, no pay,’ we have not agreed to forfeit our salaries. The strike was unnecessarily prolonged because of the government’s response to the strike. Instead of sitting on the table, the government decided to go to court and that kept prolonging negotiation.”
