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The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has called connected the national authorities to urgently reappraisal doctors’ salaries and present stronger incentives to stem the ongoing migration of wellness professionals to overseas countries, a concern commonly referred to arsenic ‘Japa’.
The NARD president, Dr. Tope Osundara made the entreaty during the association’s 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) held successful Katsina State.
He praised NARD members for their committedness done a challenging twelvemonth of “triumphs and travails”, highlighting advancement successful improving doctors’ payment contempt regulatory and governmental pressures.
Dr. Osundara stressed that mediocre wage and harsh moving conditions were driving an unprecedented exodus of Nigerian doctors, leaving critically sick patients without capable care.
“The strongest reward to motivate wellness workers successful Nigeria is outgo of wage and different fiscal incentives,” helium said, lamenting that nary corporate bargaining statement has reviewed salaries of aesculapian workers successful implicit a decade.
He besides warned of a imaginable nationwide onslaught if the authorities fails to conscionable the 19-point request of the National Medical Employees by August 2025.
According to him, incentive-based policies, a caller wage negotiation, and enhanced grooming were important to retaining endowment and strengthening the country’s wellness system.
Dr. Osundara urged NARD members to enactment actively successful discussions that volition signifier the adjacent signifier of advocacy.
“Your insights are invaluable, and unneurotic we tin proceed to physique connected our successes,” helium said, reaffirming that wage reappraisal and improved moving conditions remained NARD’s apical priorities.
Katsina State governor, Dikko Umaru Radda, assured the nonmigratory doctors of the State government’s continued support, urging them to enactment patriotism up of their renumeration.
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