How doctors frustrated moves to avert strike – FG - Punch Newspapers
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, stated this while addressing the Nigerian Health Commissioners Forum Quarterly meeting in Abuja, according to a statement on Friday by the ministry spokesman, Charles Akpan, titled, ‘We did everything possible to stop doctors’ strike- FG.’
He noted that the FG paid the doctors and other health workers bumper money as special COVID hazard allowance for three months in the first instance, to the tune of N32 billion, while states were told to pay as much as they could afford.He stated, “In September 2020, they put a notice of strike, asking for Medical Residency Training Fund by which each of them will get N542, 000 to cover cost of books and journals for that particular examination, transportation and lodging for three days.
“Before we could say Jack Robinson, they went on strike on April 1. I thought it was April fool until April 2 when we didn’t see them at work. I told them that they didn’t give the mandatory 21 days’ notice to their employers who have written to me to complain. “FG also approved N11.3b for Group Life Insurance in 2020 and renewed in 2021. Government also held a series of conjoint NMA-JOHESU meeting on hazard allowance until the two disagreed and now asked for separate negotiations. They are the ones delaying action on this. Every other issues bordering on what the states have failed to do with doctors is where our hands are tied, but Federal Government agreed to speak to the Governor’s Forum.
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