Doctors Issue 4 Weeks Notice To FG
The NARD’s key demands include immediate payment of arrears of the 25/35% revised salary, the revision of current CONMESS structure, and payment of all outstanding salaries.
The Resident Doctors are also asking for the full implementation of consequential adjustments to the 2019 and 2024 minimum wage on basic salaries and allowances, along with accrued arrears.
The association wants the government to within the four weeks disburse the 2025 Medical Residency Training Fund, and for the government and Chief Medical Directors to complete payment of the 2023/2024 arrears of Accoutrement Allowance.
Other demands include the regularisation and full remuneration of locum doctors, prompt resolution of welfare issues affecting doctors at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, sustainable employment practices to curb brain drain, and improved welfare packages for doctors and healthcare workers in state hospitals and training institutions.
It also criticized the exclusion of resident doctors from receiving specialist allowances and noted the alarming shortage of medical manpower in many hospitals.
“The OGM strongly condemns the continued and persistent casualisation and consequent poor remuneration of doctors by the chief executives of tertiary hospitals.”
