The Medical and Dental Consultant’s Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has threatened to embark on indefinite strike.
The National President of MDCAN, Prof. Keneth Ozoilo, gave a 21-day strike ultimatum at a press conference in Jos, Plateau State capital, on Monday.
He said the decision to issue the ultimatum was reached during the association’s emergency National Executive Council meeting held on July 19, 2021.
Ozoilo lamented that the directive to remove doctors who are lecturers from the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) has created a setback.
He advised the Federal Government to withdraw the directive or risk the strike.
“A directive that doctors migrating from the Teaching Hospitals to the Universities upon completion of residency training, should do so with their salaries personal to them and the practice whereby Senior Registrars lose income when they migrate from the Teaching Hospitals to become Lecturers 1 in the University is no longer acceptable.”
“A compensation for the clinical work done in the Teaching Hospital by increasing the clinical duty allowance to 100% of the consolidated basic salary of the CONMESS Scale.A halt to the proposed movement of consultants from IPPIS back to GIFMIS for the purposes of payment of their salaries.
“If our minimum demands are not met by Monday the 16th of August 2021, we shall have no alternative than to withdraw the services of our members from all institutions in which they are employed. The strike shall be total, absolute and indefinite. We hope the Government and its relevant agencies will seize this opportunity to prevent another unnecessary round of disruption of medical education and clinical services across the country,” Ozilo said.
