The Nigerian Medical Association has given the federal government till Jan 31, 2024 to implement the upward review of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure.
According to The PUNCH, president of the association, Dr Uche Ojinmah, gave the ultimatum Sunday during the closing ceremony of the association’s National Executive Council meeting in Abuja.
He said that the association cannot guarantee industrial harmony in the health sector if all its demands particularly on welfare are not met.
While saying that the association had been patient enough, he said the federal government should also implement the newly approved accruement allowance with arrears from June 2022.
He called on the federal government to quickly do the little it intends to do for doctors, stressing that doctors were making great sacrifices.
The NMA called on the federal government to put mechanisms in place to enable private hospitals attend to emergency cases.
“For now, while we are grateful, they have started doing the right thing, we look forward to their doing it completely, agreement should be agreement as we had with the last administration. It was meant to take effect from January 2023.
“The agreement is that every increment is for salary and allowances but what we have seen is salary. So, we are waiting for allowances, by next week, we will put out our position,”.
