FG Urges Resident Medical Practitioner To Call Off Strike
Dr Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health, has appealed to the resident medical practitioner to name off their strike in the activity of sufferers that wanted care at this essential time.
Ehanire made the name at a media briefing on Wednesday in Abuja to commemorate World Health Day, celebrated each and every 12 months on April 7, backed by means of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and different associated organisations.
Ehanire, who delivered his speech by means of zoom from Edo, stated this duration was once no longer a excellent time for such things to do for the medical doctors that started a strike on Thursday.
The aggrieved doctors’ agitations encompass the non-payment of salaries of three to 5 months of some residence officers and non-recruitment of residence officers. Others are abolishment of the bench prices for docs present process education in different hospitals, non-payment of National Minimum Wage and hazard allowances.
The minister, however, stated the residence officers had started out receiving their extremely good entitlements. “We are working assiduously to tackle different problems raised by means of the doctors. “Mindful of the massive Human Resource for Health challenges and challenging work to construct them and extend it, we inspire putting up extra of education establishments for fitness workers,” he said. According to him, 2021 is the global yr for Health and care workers, in attention of selfless roles they performed and proceed to play, to guide our fitness system.