FG Plans To Replace Doctors With Ad Hoc Staff

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With the ongoing warning strike of resident doctors, the federal government has threatened to hire ad-hoc doctors with the salaries of the striking doctors.

It was during a live Channels Television program, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, gave the hint.

The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) began a five-day warning strike, on Wednesday, over unmet demands.

Ngige said the striking resident doctors were crying wolf and NARD was disrespectful to the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), which was already negotiating with the government on its behalf.

“The resident doctors are part of NMA. They are young doctors in training. So if the NMA is negotiating on their behalf as the parent body, what these young people (resident doctors) are doing is disrespecting the NMA. They are crying wolf when there is none,” he said.