{"id":77087,"date":"2025-10-22T09:10:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77087"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:10:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:10:43","slug":"resident-doctors-to-hold-emergency-meeting-over-unmet-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/22\/resident-doctors-to-hold-emergency-meeting-over-unmet-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident Doctors to Hold Emergency Meeting Over Unmet Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), will hold an emergency National Executive Council (E-NEC), meeting on Saturday, October 25, to review the Federal Government\u2019s response to its 30-day ultimatum over unresolved welfare and policy issues.<\/p>\n<p>In a notice signed by its Secretary-General, Dr. Shuaibu Ibrahim, NARD said the meeting would determine whether the union would embark on fresh industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>The association had on September 26 issued a 30-day deadline demanding payment of CONMESS arrears, promotion arrears, and accoutrement allowances, among others.<\/p>\n<p>It also decried poor working conditions, salary shortfalls, and the continued casualization of medical officers.<\/p>\n<p>NARD condemned the dismissal of five resident doctors from the Federal Teaching Hospital, Lokoja, describing it as unjust amid growing brain drain and burnout in the health sector.<\/p>\n<p>The union accused the government of failing to implement agreed pension benefits and address infrastructural decay, warning that neglect of its demands could cripple healthcare delivery nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), will hold an emergency National Executive Council (E-NEC), meeting on Saturday, October 25, to review the Federal Government\u2019s response to its 30-day ultimatum over unresolved welfare and policy issues. In a notice signed by its Secretary-General, Dr. Shuaibu Ibrahim, NARD said the meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77089,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77087\/revisions\/77089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}