The strike embarked upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has been called off after nine weeks.
The industrial action was suspended by the doctors following the marathon emergency meeting of the association which stretched from Sunday evening to early Monday morning.
According to Vanguard Newspaper, both the leadership of NARD and that of the umbrella Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) had met earlier on Sunday to address certain grey areas.
The NMA, which is the body of senior doctors, including consultants, then mandated the NARD to suspend its nine weeks old strike.
President of NARD, Godiya Ishaya, said: “We’ve officially suspended the strike to resume at 8:00 am on Wednesday. We made the decision in the wee hours of today. We held an emergency meeting from 5:30 pm on Sunday to the morning hours of today, and the NEC decided that having reviewed the progress made so far, the strike should be suspended.”