The National Association of Resident Doctors has given the Federal Government two weeks to fulfil agreements relating to their demands or face industrial unrest.
The resident doctors announced this in a statement issued at the conclusion of their Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting on Saturday in Abeokuta, Ogun state.
The meeting, which took place from Thursday, April 27 to Saturday, focused on pressing issues affecting doctors’ welfare and the alarming rate of flight of doctors and other healthcare workers due to poor remuneration, grossly inadequate funding of the health sector, and the resulting negative impact on citizens and health workers.
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The doctors are demanding an immediate increment in the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure to the tune of 200 per cent of the current gross salary of doctors in addition to the new allowances included in the letter written by the association to the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire on July 7, 2022, on the review of CONMESS.
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