Resident Doctors at the Ondo State University Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH), Akure, have shut down hospital and began a warning strike over nonpayment of salaries for four months.
The Doctors who started the warning strike on Sunday threatened indefinite strike from next week Monday unless their demands were met.
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The doctor said they were being owed four months’ salary.
They claimed that other health workers under the Health Management were receiving their salaries regularly while resident doctors do not.
Spokesman of the aggrieved doctors, Dr Taiwo Olagbe, appealed to well meaning Nigerians to prevail on the state government to settle their unpaid salaries.
Addressing the aggrieved doctors, the Physician in Charge of UNIMED,Akure , Dr Adesina Adetan, said government was doing everything to ensure that their salary was moved into the mainstream system.
Dr Adetan appealed to the striking doctors to go back to work.
It would be recalled that the Resident Doctors had embarked on strike sometimes in May this year for similar reason.
They said they were unhappy with the way they were being treated by government .
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