A former vice chairman of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has condemned the incessant strike actions by medical doctors underneath the Nigerian Resident Medical doctors Affiliation (NARD).
In a press release issued on Sunday, Atiku expressed issues that medical doctors in Nigeria must beg the Federal Authorities to fulfil its personal facet of the discount with NARD.
In line with Atiku, it could be a betrayal for the Federal Authorities to signal a deal on the Skilled Allowance Desk with the affiliation and abandon it.
“The Nigerian Affiliation of Resident Medical doctors shouldn’t must beg for what has already been agreed upon. The Federal Authorities signed a deal on the Skilled Allowance Desk, and now it desires to desert it. This isn’t governance; it’s betrayal.
“Our resident medical doctors are the final line of defence in hospitals which are already collapsing. They work gruelling hours, in not possible circumstances, for pay that insults their sacrifice. And now, the federal government seeks to remove the little that was promised?” Atiku queried.
He additional warned the present administration led by President Bola Tinubu to point out committment by fulfilling its personal a part of the discount with the resident physician.
“The Tinubu administration should display dedication to the problems: 19 months of unpaid Skilled Allowance arrears; promotion arrears gathering mud; a Medical Residency Coaching Fund caught in bureaucratic limbo; and a authorities that treats its medical doctors as an afterthought and stays unconcerned as they flee the nation in droves.
“Each physician Nigeria loses to the UK, Canada, or Saudi Arabia is a failure of management, not a failure of patriotism. You can’t ask individuals to serve a nation that refuses to honour its personal phrase.
“I stand with NARD. Pay what you owe. Honour what you signed. Or clarify to 200 million Nigerians why their hospitals will go darkish on Tuesday,” Atiku added.