Ngige’s comments come two days after the National Industrial Court ordered resident doctors to suspend their strike action and go back to work, pending the determination of the substantive suit. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige has appealed to the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to shelve their industrial action as the … Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari meets members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), who have been on strike for over one month. President Muhammadu Buhari has knocked striking Nigerian doctors, saying several lives might be lost due to their industrial action. The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has since Monday, July 2, 2021, embarked … Read more
Following the attacks, it was learnt that the striking resident doctors at the Jos University Teaching Hospital recalled their members “on compassionate” ground to enable them to attend to emergencies occasioned by the crisis in Plateau State. The Plateau State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has expressed concern over what it described as the increasing … Read more
Last Friday, Ngige has said he cannot continue to waste his time meeting with striking doctors. Noting that God gave doctors the power to save lives and doctors must not compete with God but discharge their duties with humility. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has called on the striking Nigerian doctors to … Read more
Some of the hospitals in Yola have corps members offering skeletal services to patients with emergencies as monitored by newsmen. The NYSC doctors and other senior medical officers also attended to emergencies cases. The striking resident doctors in Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Yola, the Adamawa State capital, have been replaced by corps members, as well … Read more
Ngige also threatened that the Federal Government would enforce the ‘No Work, No Pay’ policy for resident doctors who have been on strike since Monday. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, has said that medical treatment in Nigeria is “fairly okay.” Meanwhile, the minister is not out rightly speaking against seeking medical … Read more