RESIDENT DOCTORS BEGIN STRIKE TODAY.

Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors says its nationwide strike scheduled to commence today will go ahead because the Federal Government has yet to invite its leadership for a meeting.

NARD said the Nigerian Medical Association, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives and others should support the struggle for upward review of its hazard allowance from the paltry sum of 5,000 naira.

The National Publicity Secretary, Dr Stanley Egbogu, told journalists that the government had not invited NARD for a meeting despite notifying them.

Recall that NARD had resolved to commerce an indefinite strike with effect from Monday September 7 2020.