The Association of Resident Doctors on the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo State, has commenced a 14-day warning strike over non-payment of seven months salaries to their new members.
Members of the affiliation, who staged a mini protest on the premises of the ability on Tuesday, vowed to floor the actions on the government-owned medical facility, if their calls for weren’t met.
The President of the UNIMEDTH ARD, Dr. John Matthew, who spoke with journalists throughout the protest, lamented that their members had been but to be paid their entitlements .
He stated “We demand full cost of the arrears of salaries owed to our members and cost of February 2024 palliative to our House Officers.
“the administration ought to pay the February hazard allowance to our members and urgently handle the extreme scientific manpower scarcity within the establishment.
Our members work on a regular basis. There aren’t any employees on account of Japa syndrome.”
The PUNCH reviews that the state chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association had known as on the state authorities to handle the difficulty of scarcity of resident docs in state-owned hospitals.
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