JUST-IN: FCT Resident Doctors Suspend Strike

The Association of Resident Doctors successful the Federal Capital Territory Administration (ARD-FCTA) has suspended its indefinite onslaught and directed members to enactment connected Monday.

Speaking with our analogous connected Friday, the association’s president, Dr George Ebong, said the determination followed interventions from the Senate Committee connected Federal Territory Area Councils and Ancillary Matters, chaired by Senator David Jimkuta.

He, however, stressed that nary of the doctors’ demands had been met.

The ARD-FCTA comprises doctors moving successful 14 territory and wide hospitals nether the FCTA and the Department of Public Health.

The doctors embarked connected the onslaught past Monday aft months of unresolved negotiations with the FCTA.

Their demands see outgo of wage arrears ranging from 1 to six months for members employed since 2023, Immediate recruitment of caller staff, colony of the 2025 Medical Residency Training Fund, and outgo of arrears from the 25–35 per cent upward reappraisal of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS).

Others demands of the doctord see wide timelines for completing skipping and conversion processes for members, correction of erroneous wage deductions and irregular outgo patterns and conversion of post-Part II Fellows to Consultant cadre wrong six months of passing.

The remainder are documented timelines for promotion exercises with afloat arrears, outgo of wage grant arrears, renovation and due equipping of FCTA hospitals, and colony of hazard allowance arrears and wage owed to recently employed outer residents, presently unpaid for 3 to 4 months.

Dr Ebong said, “We are suspending the onslaught to statesman enactment astatine 8 a.m. Monday morning. Even though nary of our demands person been met, the Senate has assured america that they volition prosecute the minister. Congress has decided to spot their connection for now. We besides admit the Minister of the FCT, Nyesom Wike, for his interventions.”

He added that the association’s Congress volition reconvene aft the agreed timeframe to reassess advancement and determine connected the adjacent steps if their demands stay unaddressed.