By Chinedu Adonu
ENUGU—NATIONAL Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has called on the Federal Government to make adequate budgetary provision for salaries and other emoluments for its members next year.

The doctors appeal was made at the just-concluded extraordinary National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the association at the National Trauma Centre, National Hospital, Abuja.

NARD said that the alleged plan to sabotage their quest   by some heads of federal health institutions will be resisted by medical practi­ tioners throughout the fed­ eration by downing tools.

In a communique signed by the President, Dr John Ugo-chukwu Onyebueze, Secretary General, Dr Emmanuel Aneke and Public Relations Officer, Dr Ugoeze Asinobi, NARD rejected the implementation of the “No work, no pay” policy in its entirety.

It noted that the Federal Ministry of Health through the Head, Department of Health Services (DHS) has been visiting federal teach­ ing hospitals purportedly on account of verification of the stability of these in­ stitutions to finance per­ sonnel emoluments, but have been going beyond their terms of reference (TOR) by spreading false information, contrary to existing circulars and Fed-eral Government activities on proper placement of doctors and emoluments.

The association disclosed that the action of DHS has created tension, capable of degenerating into indus­ trial harmony in the health sector.

NARD stated that the attempt by DHS at stop­ ping proper placement of doctors is intentional and geared towards personal gains from the industrial disharmony their actions are generating.