The Minister of State for Health, Tunji Alausa, made the call in Kaduna during a visit to the National Eye Centre.
According to Alausa, negotiations are ongoing to ensure the safety of their kidnapped colleague, Ganiyat Popoola.
The minister said the Federal Government and security agencies were working hard to rescue Popoola.
The minister said that he had held a meeting with the leadership of NARD over the situation to convince them to call off the strike because it would worsen the situation.
Alausa added that the kidnappers kept changing their demands every moment, but assured that security agencies were working hard to see that she was safely rescued.
It would be recalled that the members of the association began a seven-day warning strike to push for the rescue of a Kaduna-based doctor, Ganiyat Popoola.
Popoola, a staff of the centre, was kidnapped in December, 2023 and has now spent about nine months in the kidnappers’ den.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the association, National Eye Centre, Ibrahim Mohammed, told newsmen that the strike was still on.
He said the medical and dental consultants had joined them in the strike and it was a directive from the national body.