The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria said on Sunday that its National Executive Council will meet next month to determine whether or not to go on a nationwide strike.
Dr Victor Makanjuola, President of MDCAN, revealed this to journalists in an interview.
The association had given a 21-day ultimatum to the FG in a statement to accept its demands or suffer industrial unrest following the NEC meeting on August 7, 2023.
The ultimatum is set to expire today, August 28, 2023.
However, Dr Makanjuola informed reporters that the organisation was giving the government till August 31, 2023, to satisfy its requests after receiving the letter for the ultimatum on August 11, 2023.
He stated:
“The ultimatum ends on August 28, if we count from the day we held our NEC meeting, but the government got the letter on the 11th. Since we are having our Biennial Delegate Meeting from September 4th to 10th, the decision to proceed on strike or not will be taken when we have our meeting there. So if nothing happens around that time which will be around August 31, then we will make our decision at the NEC meeting.
“We are giving the government till August 31. So, we have to hold our NEC meeting to decide if there will be a strike or not. Assuming there is no NEC meeting coming up, we would have called an emergency NEC meeting to make our decision.”
cc: Punch Ng
