Doctors in the employ of Ogun State government have threatened to embark on industrial action beginning from September 1.
The strike threat followed the government’s failure to pay hazard allowance with arrears, dating back to January 2023, to all doctors working in government-owned hospitals.
The state chapter of Nigerian Medical Association in a letter dated August 11, 2023, said at its Annual General Meeting, the medical association agreed to embark on industrial action if Gov. Dapo Abiodun does not meet up with the new 21-day ultimatum, which will elapse on August 31.
“During our last AGM, it was agreed that we should give them another 21-day ultimatum, that if they did not pay or doctors were short-paid, there would be a statewide strike of all the doctors working with state hospitals and facilities across the state. All doctors in general hospitals, primary health care centres, and teaching hospitals would also be involved,” NMA chairman in the state, Dr Kunle Ashimi told Punchng.
