Resident Doctors Suspend Protest After Meeting With FG

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its nationwide protest earlier scheduled to commence today, August 9.

Federal government representatives had met with the doctors on Tuesday over their ongoing strike action and the planned protest.

Emeka Orji, NARD president, had said the outcome of the meeting would determine if the protest would go on.

Orji said that “the protest has been suspended. We review again in 72 hours”

The association took the decision after a meeting with Godswill Akpabio, the senate president, and other principal officers of the upper legislative chamber.

“We had a very fruitful meeting with the senate led by the president of the senate and from our discussions with them, we are very hopeful that when we table our discussions today before the NEC, something positive would come out,” Orji told journalists.

“From our interaction with the president of the senate and the practical demonstration he did before us today, we are very confident that there would be light at the end of the tunnel in the next 24 hours.

“Because of the intervention of the president of the senate, who is the number three citizen and the assurance he has given us, our planned national protest has been cancelled while the decision on the ongoing strike would be taken as soon as we meet.”

On his part, Akpabio assured the doctors that the President Bola Tinubu administration will accede to their demands.