The Federal Government says it has commenced the payment of death benefits to deceased doctors and other health workers
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, said this at the end of a meeting between federal government representatives and the Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors on Thursday in Abuja.Ngige described the meeting as fruitful and tendered evidence by the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation to show that insurance companies have started paying up.
On the Residency Training Fund which is supposed to be in 2021 budget, Ngige said that the Budget Office of the federation tendered evidence to show that the N4.3 billion due to them was captured under the personnel costs in service wide votes.The minister also noted that work was in progress for those who are migrating from GFMIS platform to IPPIS, adding that the budget and IPPIS offices were given about 30 days to conclude all the outstanding issues.
”The Chairman of Committee of CMDs, Prof. Jef Momoh, who is the CMD of National Hospital, Abuja, will assist the permanent secretary and we hope that the matter will be sorted out in two weeks.
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