The union arrived at the decision after signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the federal government on Friday.
The doctors, among other grievances, are demanding the immediate payment of the 2023 Medical Residency Training Fund , tangible steps on the “upward review” of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure and payment of all salary arrears owed its members since 2015.
The union also wants immediate massive recruitment of clinical staff in the hospitals and abolishment of the bureaucratic limitations to the immediate replacement of doctors and nurses who leave the system. They also want the immediate review of hazard allowance by all state governments as well as private tertiary health institutions where any form of residency training is done.The resident doctors comprise the bulk of medical personnel in Nigeria’s tertiary hospitals; hence health activities are mostly crippled when they are on strike.Share this:
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