{"id":221997,"date":"2020-05-31T08:09:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T07:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=221997"},"modified":"2020-05-31T08:44:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T07:44:16","slug":"doctors-threaten-strike-issue-14-day-ultimatum-to-buhari-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=221997","title":{"rendered":"Doctors threaten strike, issue 14-day ultimatum to Buhari govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has given a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to immediately implement agreements reached on the health sector or risk an indefinite strike.<br \/>\nThe ultimatum was issued by NARD in Bauchi at the end of its 2020 Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) .<br \/>\nNational President of NARD, Dr Sokomba Aliyu reading the communique issued at the end of the OGM, lamented the harassment and maltreatment of some of its members in Lagos, Kaduna States and the FCT in the cause of performing their professional activities.<br \/>\n\u201cWe hereby give the government a 14 days ultimatum to meet all of our demands to avoid an indefinite and total strike by the Resident Doctors across the country,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThe doctors made reference to a slash of workers\u2019 salaries by 25%, bringing \u201cuntold hardship to them and their families\u201d in Kaduna.<br \/>\n\u201cAll doctors sacked in Plateau be recalled immediately and that Kaduna government reinstate the cut salaries of workers.<br \/>\n\u201cNARD is also requesting for the supply of Personal Protective Equipment and other consumables to all health facilities across the country with adequate and maximum protection,\u201d the statement added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has given a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to immediately implement agreements reached on the health sector or risk an indefinite strike. The ultimatum was issued by NARD in Bauchi at the end of its 2020 Ordinary General Meeting (OGM) . National President of NARD, Dr Sokomba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14571,3],"tags":[2658,1730,4456],"class_list":["post-221997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-doctors","tag-strike"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/222037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}