FCT doctors issue strike notice over alleged six-month unpaid salaries
24 December 2024 |
5:52 am
The Association of Resident Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has threatened to withdraw services in the nation’s capital if their alleged six-month unpaid salaries are not settled.
FCT doctors issue strike notice over alleged six-month unpaid salaries
The Association of Resident Doctors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has threatened to withdraw services in the nation’s capital if their alleged six-month unpaid salaries are not settled.
The medics, subsequently, issued a 14-day ultimatum to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, to meet their demands. The association’s President, Dr. George Ebong, who issued the warning at a press conference yesterday in Abuja, also lamented the “non-payment of the Medical Residency Training Fund and other unmet demands.”
While lauding the minister for his infrastructural development of Abuja, Ebong stressed that there was an urgent need for him to also focus on the well-being of doctors, who were on the “verge of extinction due to the economic hardship.”
According to him, Wike should concentrate on human development the same way he is doing in the infrastructure sector. He stated that the former governor of Rivers State has 14 days to act on their demands to avert what he described as the “deadliest shutdown of hospitals” in the nation’s capital.
Ebong said: “First, we have to appreciate the minister for his infrastructural development in the FCT since his emergence.
“We want him to know that doctors are abandoned projects. While he fixes the abandoned infrastructural projects, we are the abandoned human projects. We believe the minister can deal with the challenge.
“We want the minister to clear the six-month salary arrears of our members employed in 2023.
“The minister should, with urgency, clear the payment of the Medical Residency Training Fund of 2024.
“Also, we want the minister to review the bonding policy to two years, instead of six years.”
Other demands, according to Ebong, are the implementation of skipping and issuance of skipping letters to its members employed in 2023; immediate payment of accoutrements allowance for 2024, and payment of outgoing 13 months hazard allowance arrear.
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