This comes after the National Executive Committee (NEC)
meeting of the association in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, where it
reviewed the progress on their demands.
The doctors had threatened to embark on a nationwide strike
earlier this month over the inability of the government to address their
demands.
They an upward review of the medical residency training
fund, non-payment of outstanding arrears of the new hazard allowance, as well
as the non-payment of the consequential
adjustment of the minimum wage to some of its members.
However, at the end of the NEC meeting, the doctors
commended the Federal Government for the timely release of the reviewed
circular on the medical residency training fund.
The committee also hailed the Minister of Labour and
Employment for the other steps taken to upscale the welfare of its members
The doctors however asked that the Federal Government to pay
all other outstanding arrears owed its members.
They also appealed to the Nigeria Governors’ Forum to
prevail on the governors of Abia, Ekiti, Imo, and Ondo states, whom according
to them are still owing salaries of their members ranging from three months to
25 months.
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