The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has described the demands of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors in an ultimatum issued to the F.G as ab§urd.
The doctors are demanding an immediate increment in the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure to the tune of 200 per cent of the current gross salaries of doctors.
The body also cond£mned the bill seeking to mandate medical and dental practitioners to practice for 5 years before relocating abroad.
Speaking in an interview with Arise TV on Monday, May 1, Ngige said: “If the NARD who we have been managing their matter, we are giving them everything they want, even when in training, pay them a full salary, pay them all the allowances & you decided that we have not done enough.
The entitlements syndrome, the sense of entitlement is too much in this country and like I said earlier, you obey the law you look odd, you apply the law, you look odd or you are a wick£d man.”