The national assembly has invited the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to a meeting over its strike action.
Innocent Orji, NARD president, said he has received an invitation to attend a meeting with the leadership of the national assembly.
The resident doctors began a five-day warning strike on Wednesday due to the federal government’s refusal to meet its demands.
Some of the demands include massive recruitment of clinical staff in the hospitals; immediate infrastructural development in hospitals and an allocation of at least 15 percent of the budgetary provisions to health; immediate payment of the 2023 medical residency training fund (MRTF); and the immediate increment in the consolidated medical salary structure (CONMESS) to the tune of 200% of the gross salary of doctors.
