THE STRIKE CONTINUES..Long live NARD and NMA

Colleagues and comrades,

It is worth to let you guys know that our medical profession, welfare and indeed patient health and care and hospitals in Nigeria is being threatened by JOHESU and the FG is playing politics with us and not taking us seriously. JOHESU and FG should be held responsible.

THE NARD E-NEC and NMA EDM just ended and we voted to continue the strike till our demands are met. THIS IS THE LAST FIGHT and we must be ready for it  and put all we have till our needs are met.

We should not allow the public, Govt or JOHESU to use the hippocratic oath to harrass us or that patients are dying to force us to work. We love our work, the patient and indeed this country but we not sacrifice our lives and families and our profession or be cajoled or pressured to return to work till Govt learns that he should learn to reward those who are at the forefront of patient care even at the expense of our own lives and family comfort.

NMA 

The meeting held with the full representation from NARD till the wee hours of this morning. The Minister of Health, Gov Uduagan,  Senator Ifeanyi,  Tony Elumelu attended; and the game plan was to coax and cajole us and pressure NMA NOC to accept the MOU , which did not address our demands nor solved the problem in the health sector created by JOHESU.

The minister and Gov also  made matters worst by preempting our calling off the strike or resuming emergency services with the information giving to the press.

1) We agreed that Govt should issue circulars addressing DCMAC, CMD, CONSULTANT and DIRECTORSHIP now. The so called MOU was evasive and  still referred us to Ya ya Le Ahmed committee.

2) We asked that FG should pay us Relativity CONMESS and Skipping from January now and not to attempt to destroy it by granting JOHESU another distortion: The MOU stipulated we should wait till September to get paid. But NARD does not trust GOVT and rejected it and fought on the NMA floor to be steadfast.

Many other issues was addressed and the atmosphere was very tensed and members were close to throwing blows at betrayers or NOC members who tried to play usual politics with the welfare of Nigerian doctors and the future of our profession. The minister left angrily.

Colleagues, the fight has just begun. Let's be ready for a long and tough fight that will bring hope to us and our patients. We must all be ready for media war  and propaganda and JOHESU lies and Govt's wrath. But we must be United and put our mouth and money to fight this course till we see justice done to us and our patient's lives not jeopardised by the useless, covetous and grandiose delusional demands of JOHESU.

Let's go about our lives and trust that God would see us through and strengthen our NARD and NMA leaders as well as our ARD leaders. Let's pray for victory and  restoration of sanity to our hospitals and God to help Govt to repair what JOHESU is about to or has destroyed in various hospitals across the federation.

NARD 

Abiout 5 demands before this time at our various negotiations before the 3rd as warning strike .

1) FMC Owerri colleagues: This is only fully met demand of NARD.

2) RESIDENCY EMPLOYMENT LETTER TEMPLATE: The circular and template were released but yet to be implemented. We can not celebrate yet because as typical of most CMD implementing will take sometime or some pressure by local ARD. So until all our members who need it and especially those who have been given letter to leave residency are reversed, our battle has just begun locally for implementation.

3) CONMESS and skipping: It was not satisfactorily addressed.

4) Teaching allowance and Rural allowance not met.

5) IPPIS: GOVT has not solved the problem for us to go back.

So added to NMA peculiar demands which were mostly not met but referred to YAYALE Ahmed Committee and SO CALLED MOU, we decided to  continue the strike.

Let's be steadfast and focused. 

LONG LIVE NARD

LONG LIVE NMA

LONG LIVE THE NIGERIA PATIENTS

Ben Oranye

ARD UCH

GENERAL SECRETARY