Medical Doctors with Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH) under the aegis of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have commenced a five-day warning strike over the non-payment of salaries owed some members.
Dr Ashiru Mikail, Vice President of the association who disclosed this at a news conference on Monday in Zaria, said that the association on July 15 gave the hospital’s management a one-week ultimatum to address their demands or face a warning strike.
Mikail explained that the ultimatum expired on Sunday, hence the commencement of the warning strike.
He said that the association demands the implementation of the 25 percent CONMESS upward review of the salaries of members who were on the GIFMIS platform among other demands.
“The association would reconvene to review its strategy after the warning strike to determine the next line of action.
“The association rejects percentage salary payments for members on the GIFMIS platform and demands repayment of parts of their salaries withheld,” Mikail said.
He explained that the doctors that were paid in percentage in June were being owed salary arrears of 202, adding that in June, the salaries of affected members were slashed by about 25 to 27 percent representing N58,000 to N60,000.
“Despite the harsh economic challenges in the country, no reasonable reasons for the deductions were advanced to the association by the management.
“The management proposed to pay N2 million to offset the arrears of accouterment allowance per month from the overhead cost.
“This amount can only pay N5,000 per member monthly as against the N100,000 owed to each member.
“More than 60 percent of the Federal Tertiary Health institutions in the North West zone have commenced payments of the arrears of accouterment allowance but ABUTH has not, but rather proposed to pay N5,000 instead of N25,000,” he said.
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