300 UITH resident doctors threaten monthly strike

Date: 2017-05-14

Over 300 members of the Association of Resident Doctors, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Chapter, Kwara State, have vowed to embark on five days of strike each month until their demands for the payment of outstanding entitlements are met.

Chairman of the chapter, Dr. Ige Kolawole, told journalists in Ilorin, the capital, on Friday that members of the association were currently on a three-day warning strike.

The first phase of the strike, which he said commenced on Thursday, will end on Sunday.

Kolawole alleged that since 2014, when entitlements of doctors were increased nationwide, UITH had yet to pay their full entitlements.

According to him, they had each been shortchanged to the tune of about N100, 000 monthly; a situation he said would be reported to their national leadership. Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Prof. Abdulwaheed Olatinwo, denied the allegations, insisting that the balance owed the workers was about N20, 000 each.

He stated that the management of the hospital had compiled the arrears and communicated same to the appropriate quarters.

Olatinwo appealed to the striking doctors to be patient, adding that the management was working towards addressing the shortfall.

He said, "The management of the UITH wishes to acknowledge awareness of agitations of members of the hospital's chapter of the ARD, over the non-payment of certain allowances of its members.

"The management is in the process of forwarding the outstanding liabilities on skipping and relativity allowances as requested by the Federal Ministry of Health. "While we await the approval and release of funds from relevant quarters, the management will appreciate continuous discharge of doctors' duties to the patients."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Elewu     IDPU     Funke Adedoyin     Assayomo     Laduba     Ilorin South     S.O. Opowoye     KFA     Jamila Bio Ibrahim     Yahaya Jibril Usman     JAAC     Ibrahim Akaje     George Innih     Ashiru     Saheed Alakoso     Opobiyi     JSSCE     Gbugbu     Kunle Okeowo     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Olupako     Funmi Salau     Isiaka Gold     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Saudat Abdulbaqi     Aisha Ahman-Pategi     Obasanjo     Oke-Ogun     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Kwara Volleyball Association     All Peoples Party     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Temitope Ogunbanke     Ghali Muhammed     Oba Abu     Computer Based Test     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Transition Implementation Committee     Just Law Forum     Ilesha-Gwanara     Adeniyi Ojo     Ayodele Shittu     Emir Of Shonga     Garba Dogo     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Segun Ogunsola     Amuda Musbau     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Oni Adebayo     Idris Garba     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Kwara Metro Park     HICA     NULGE     Sunset Workers     Ibrahim Labaika     Femi Ogunsola     Lola Olabayo     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Baboko Primary School     Bature Bello     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Segun Abifarin     Bashir Adigun     Khairat Gwadabe     Turaki Of Ilorin     Abdulazeez Arowona     Egbewole     Kayode Zubair     Guber Aspirant     Sheikh Ariyibi     High Court    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

CELF     Jelili Yusuf     Otuka     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Adedipe     Kwara Consultative Forum     Oba-Solagberu     Bayo Onimago     Saheed Alakoso     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Odolaye Aremu     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Jaiz Bank     Bashiru Makama     Alapansapa     Dan Iya Of Ilorin     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Dan-Kazeem     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Kwara Apc     Government House     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Budo Egba     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     First Lady     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     CACOVID     Segun Ogunsola     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Charcoal     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Amule Elementary School     Rachael Obisesan     Ahmed Bayero     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Aliyu Umar     Bello Oyedepo     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     James Ayeni     Age AbdulKareem     Jani Ibrahim     UTME     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Yahaya Abdulkareem     Ariyo     Babatunde Ajeigbe     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Lithium Deposit     Modibbo Kawu     Suleiman Mora Omar     George Funsho Adebayo     Zara Umar     Danladi     Unicontinental Construction Company     Nurudeen Mohammed     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Kwarareports     David Oyepinola Adedumoye     Nigeria Computer Society     Shehu Adaramaja     Omupo     Razak Atunwa     Saka Keji     Baba-Isale     Ibrahim Mohammed     CT Ayeni     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Bisi Oyeleke     Zainab Abass     Ekiti     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Hussein Oloyede     Ayobami Akanbi