Abia doctors suspend strike

Some of the doctors in Abia are owed salaries for over 20 months.

The doctors, on 8 December 2022, embarked on an indefinite strike to protest the non-payment of their salary arrears by the immediate past administration of Okezie Ikpeazu.

The doctors said the suspension followed assurances by Governor Alex Otti’s administration to offset their salary arrears in the state. The NMA said doctors in Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Hospitals Management Board and the Ministry of Health are owed 23, 16 and two months’ salary arrears, respectively.“The promise to pay off these salaries was also emphasised by his special adviser on health in a meeting with NMA Abia State Executive on Friday, 2nd June 2023.

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