Doctors at the Federal Medical Centre in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), have suspended their 50-day-old strike over
unpaid salaries.The doctors resumed work following the full payment of their salary arrears from September to December and the shortfalls from February to April.The doctors attended to patients yesterday.NARD, through its former President, Dr. Chukwunonso Okoye, went on an indefinite strike on November 15, last year, to protest irregularities in the payment of their salaries.The hospital’s Chief Medical Director (CMD), Dr. Dennis Alagoa, thanked the Federal Government for paying workers’ salaries till date.He urged members of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) and Dental Technicians (DT) to resume duty.The former union leader assuring that the government would pay the outstanding within the month.He said: “The management is begging the unions to resume work as the government has resolved to invoke the policy of ‘no work, no pay’ for those who fail to report for work. Union leaders are misleading the members not to report for duty.“So, starting from this January, the ‘no work, no pay’ policy has taken effect. Any day they do not turn up for work, their money will be deducted.”NARD President at the hospital, Dr. Onini Ebimobowei, said the Federal Government paid their full salaries from September to December with the shortfall of 52 per cent from February to April.Ebimobowei, who said the doctors were only owed May (half salary), hailed the Buhari administration for making them to go back to work, following the promised to pay the outstanding one month.The union leader said the resumption was in the interest of the patients and other Bayelsa residents.
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