Doctors threaten strike over unpaid salaries

Dimeji Akinloye 03:12 - 26 March 2015

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The NMA Chairman in the state said members of the Association in the state daily experience suffering following the non- payment of their salaries.

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Osun state has threatened that it would direct its members in civil service to embark on strike should the state government fail to pay the five months salaries it owe them.

Chairman of the NMA in the state, Dr. Suraj Ogunyemi has told newsmen in Oshogbo that the affiliate bodies of the association have notified the state government of the planned industrial action.

He explained that the state government paid medical doctors in its employ last in October, 2014, adding that members of the NMA in the state daily experience suffering following the non- payment of their salaries.

However, the Osun state Governor Rauf Aregbesola had on Wednesday, March 25 blamed the non-payment of salaries in the state on the decline in federal allocation.