The Federal Government has been given two weeks by the National Association of Resident Doctors to implement agreements about their requests or risk industrial unrest.
In a statement released on Saturday following their Extraordinary National Executive Council meeting in Abeokuta, Ogun state, the resident doctors made this statement.
The meeting, which took place from Thursday, April 27 to Saturday, focused on urgent problems affecting doctors’ welfare and the alarming rate of departure of medical professionals due to inadequate pay, the health sector’s gross underfunding, and the resulting harm to both patients and healthcare workers.
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.