The University of Uyo Teaching Hospital Branch of the Association of Resident Doctors has embarked on an indefinite strike over "incomplete salaries’’.
The
President of the association, Dr Christian Adeneye, made the
announcement in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in
Uyo on Friday.
Adeneye explained that resident
doctors in the hospital had been receiving incomplete salaries since
2014, saying that all efforts to make government see reason on the mater
had failed.
"We are embarking on an
indefinite strike from today. The problem is about the incomplete
salaries that we have been receiving for two years now.
"We have been negotiating with the Federal Government but there is insincerity on the part of government.
"We
have been mandated nationally. All centres that are yet to comply with
the implementation of the payment of our full salaries should embark on
an indefinite strike.”
He said that the
strike had not been postponed as was speculated by a section of the
media. The unionist confirmed, however, that there was a meeting with
the Speaker of the House of Representative, Mr Yakubu Dogara, where it
was agreed that medical centres that were already enjoying full salaries
should not join the strike.
The president said
that the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital was not in the list of
teaching hospitals enjoying full salaries, so doctors there had to
embark on strike.
He appealed to patients to bear
with doctors on the development, assuring that work would resume as soon
as government agreed to pay.
Adeneye said that
doctors had shown enough understanding since 2014, when they started
receiving incomplete salaries. Patients were being attended to by
nurses, senior doctors and other medical workers.
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