A fresh crisis seems to be brewing between the Government of Lagos State and its medical doctors.
In a new press statement signed by the chairman of the Lagos Medical
Guild, Dr. Muyiwa Odusote, the doctors are
complaining about their
unpaid salaries for the month of May; an undue deduction for the month
of April; contemptuous treatment by the State Government; and a
persistent show of unconcern for the CONMESS agreement it reached with
them before it illegally sacked all 788 doctor two months ago.
The Guild decried the victimisation by the Lagos State Health
Commission of a Principal Medical Officer who recently had a verbal
exchange with one of the doctors recruited by the Government during the
period the doctors were agitating for the implementation of the CONMESS
agreement.
The doctors are also unhappy that the subject matter of their
grievance with the Lagos State Government is still being treated with
levity by the government of Babatunde Fashola.
Since the resumption of medical services in the hospitals, the Lagos
State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association and the Medical Guild
say they have written a series of letters to the Lagos State Government
requesting meetings and mechanisms to be put in place to resolve all the
outstanding issues that led to and emanated from the recent health
sector crisis, including CONMESS.
The government, however, is yet to invite the NMA or the Medical
Guild to any meeting to look into these issues. “The only correspondence
from government was to inform us about a committee it set up to review
wage matters of health workers,” the statement said. “We however do not
know the composition of this committee, neither have we received any
correspondence from the committee.”
Culled- Saharareporters
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