Salary: Resident doctors give Borno 21-day ultimatum

By Sadiq Abubakar

Maiduguri

Borno state Resident Medical Doctors Association (BSRMDA) has issued a 21- day ultimatum to the state government to implementation its Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) or be ready to face indefinite strike.
State chairman of the association, Dr. Bukar Abbagana, at a press conference held at the NUJ Press Centre, Maiduguri, yesterday said BSRMDA rose from its emergency general congress on 4th January 2018 and resolved to issue the 21 day ultimatum to the state government to implement the revised CONMESS, skipping and relativity allowances and to also pay all the arrears from 2014 when the said CONMESS implementation started nationwide or be ready for the heat of the union.
He explained that, at the time resident medical doctors across the country were going on strike on the subject matter, Borno state resident medical doctors, out of loyalty to the state government and empathy for the people of the state, refused to down-tools with the belief that the governor would show the same understanding to the medical doctors but to no avail.
Abbagana said, consequently, the association had no option than to issue an ultimatum from Monday, 8th January 2018 for the state government to address the above subject matter with arrears from 2014.
According to him, the congress was fully aware and mindful of the grave consequences such industrial disharmony would have on the good people of the state and appealed to spirited individuals and the general populace to impress on the state government to do the needful to avert such industrial disharmony.
He disclosed that there were a total of 150 medical doctors on the payroll of the state government who were being affected by the non implementation of CONMESS, skipping and relativity allowances.

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