COVID-19 hazard allowance: 33 states fail to pay as 854 doctors, nurses test positive

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COVID-19 hazard allowance: 33 states fail to pay as 854 doctors, nurses test positive
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Friday Olokor, Dayo Ojerinde, Daud Olatunji and Raphael Ede No fewer than 33 states have yet to begin the implementation of the new hazard allowance for resident doctors, despite their risk of contra

cting COVID-19.

Also on Tuesday, the number of nurses and resident doctors, who had contracted COVID-19, rose to 854. Mamora said, “The Federal Government agreed to shelve the payment of the existing N5,000 hazard allowance, which had been in existence since 1991. In its place, a special COVlD-19 hazard and inducement allowance of 50 per cent of the consolidated basic salary is to be paid to all health workers in all the Federal Government teaching hospitals and federal medical centres and her designated COVlD-19 centres and primary health care centres to last for the first three months in the first instance.

He said, “The Federal Government paid two months allowance during the strike. Some of our members got it. Some did not get it. Immediately we called off the strike, they stopped the payment of the allowance.

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