The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Federal Medical Centre, Katsina, has embarked on a five-day warning strike over cuts in doctors’ allowances.
Addressing the press yesterday, president of FMC, Katsina chapter of ARD, Muhammad Usman Suleiman said the strike, which begins today, became necessary following federal government’s reluctance to restore certain allowances due to members.
He said the Budget Office of the Federation slashed N30million from the personnel costs of the hospital, insisting that the shortfall was responsible for the cut in members’ allowances.
Dr Suleiman said certain categories of workers in the hospital, including members of ARD, were denied certain allowances.
He said, “We were told that we also have to forfeit one month’s call duty allowance per year,” he noted, saying other outsourced staffers like cleaners and security men had not been paid two months’ salaries.
He maintained that the strike was not about the welfare of doctors alone.
“In the last three weeks, the spirit with which people engaged their work has fallen,” he said, adding that the association resorted to strike with painstaking anger.
He stressed that at the expiration of the five-day warning strike, members would resume work and embark on indefinite strike afterwards if government did not meet their demands.
By Muazu Elazeh
Leadership
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