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Go back to work, Akeredolu begs striking doctors

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koredeOndo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu on Tuesday  appealed to resident doctors in the state to call off their strike.

About 190 doctors, under the auspices of the Resident Doctors Association of the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, on Friday embarked on an indefinite strike in  protest  against the  failure of the  state government to pay them  their six months’ salaries. It  was learnt that  the state government reacted by engaging consultants to attend to patients.

However, the services of the consultants were reportedly not satisfactory to the patients who  allegedly complained that they were not  getting the right attention  from them.

Akeredolu,  who spoke through his Special Adviser on Health, Dr Jibayo Adeyeye,  said the state  government would pay the striking doctors as soon as the 2020 budget was  implemented.

He  said the  doctors were newly employed and that  their appointments  had not been confirmed by the state government, stressing that not all of them were being owed six months’ salaries.

He however  said  the strike  had  not disrupted medical activities at public  hospitals, saying the  consultants engaged and other medical workers were attending to patients.

Adeyeye said, “I want to appeal to the doctors to go back to work.  Hopefully in the next three to four weeks their salaries will be cleared. By then the 2020 budget would have been in operation. “

He declared that the doctors would not be victimised or sanctioned after the matter had been resolved.

“It is their right to protest,” he said.

source: Punch

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