Threatens to escalate on-going strike after 7 days
By Steve Oko
The Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, has told Abia State Government that any doctor being owed wages is unhappy and constitutes serious security risk to his patients.
NMA Chairman Abia State chapter, Dr Chimezie Okwuonu, who stated this during a press conference Tuesday in Umuahia, regretted that three weeks after doctors downed tools in compliance with the directive of their national body following backlog of salary arrears owed some of them, the State Government was yet to meet their demands.
Doctors in the state proceeded on “every Tuesday strike action” to register their grievances over 25 and 11 months of salary arrears owed doctors in the Abia State University Teaching Hospital Aba, ABSUTH; and the state Hospital Management Board, respectively.
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