The Federal Government has been given two weeks by the National Association of Resident Doctors to implement agreements about their requests or risk industrial unrest.
In a statement released on Saturday following their Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting in Abeokuta, Ogun state, the resident doctors made this statement.
The meeting, which took place from Thursday, April 27 to Saturday, focused on urgent problems affecting doctors’ welfare and the alarming rate of departure of medical professionals due to inadequate pay, the health sector’s gross underfunding, and the resulting harm to both patients and healthcare workers.
In addition to the new allowances mentioned in the letter the association sent to the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, on July 7, 2022, regarding the review of CONMESS, the resident doctors are requesting an immediate increase in the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure to the tune of 200 percent of the current gross salary of doctors.
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