The Speaker of the House of Representatives Mr Tajudeen Abbas said Wednesday that concerted actions would be taken towards ending the strike embarked by members of the National Association of Resident Doctors.
He said this while fielding questions from State House correspondents after a meeting between principal officers of the House of Representatives and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He said the briefed the President on the meeting they held with the leadership of the striking Doctors and plans are already in to meet some of their demands.
“It is a work in progress. I am sure with some of the issues that they have raised, if we can be able to meet some of their expectations; of which we are already working on that. We have already set up an ad-hoc committee chaired by the Majority Leader of the House to look at the issues they raised.
“I am sure one or two interventions in their areas of concern will prevail on them to come back to the negotiation table,” he said.
The Speaker said the President appealed for patience from the striking doctors as he has not been fully briefed yet on their concerns.
“He said he is just coming on board and we should ask them to please give him more time as he is completely unaware of most of the things that they mentioned and he is yet to be briefed about the issues.
“He also advised that we should channel all the issues to his Chief of Staff to enable him lok at them one after the other so I believe within the next coming days some concerted actions will be taken,” he said.
