Last week many doctors took to the streets of Yenagoa, Bayelsa state, to protest against unpaid four-months salaries owed them by the central.
The desperate medics even vulnerable to prevent providing medical aid to patients giving Gregorian
calendar month fifteen because the last date to repay all the debts.
The Association of Resident Doctors have recently met the Federal Medical Centre authorities to debate the difficulty, however, the results left lots to be desired.
The doctors LED by Dr. Nonso Okoye, their chairman, were seen carrying placards speech “Our families area unit hungry”, “FG pay our salaries” and “We area unit hungry, MMM is changing into associate option”.
According to the protesters, they were paid simply 1/2 their earnings from Feb to could this year and still awaiting Gregorian calendar month and Oct payments.
The said: “We wish the central to pay America our monies. we've not withdrawn services. All we have a tendency to area unit speech is for the govt. to pay America for work done.
Nigerians ought to prevail on the central to pay America. the maximum amount as we have a tendency to don’t wish to withdraw our services, we've resolved to withdraw the services by fifteenth of Gregorian calendar month if nothing is finished.
We have met with the management however all they did was pay America a month earnings. They told America that the budget accessible cannot pay earnings.”
Commenting on the difficulty, Dennis Alagoa, the chief medical director of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), said: “With Tuesday’s statement by President Muhammadu Buhari, we have a tendency to area unit assured that the difficulty are going to be resolved before long.”
He additionally stressed that there’s no sense during a strike because the native management isn't accountable for the difficulty and therefore the matter has been already studied by the central officers.
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