Medical doctors in Anambra State under the aegis of
Conference of Civil Service Doctors last weekend embarked on an indefinite strike.
The strike, it was learnt, was sequel to the
alleged failure of the state government to adhere to the agreement signed with
them.
The state Chairman of the group, Dr. Livinus
Chukwuma, who briefed journalists at the General Hospital in Onitsha on Monday,
said: "This strike is necessitated by the failure of the state government
to adhere to the agreement signed with the Civil Service Doctors and Nigerian
Medical Association (NMA) on one part and the Anambra State Government on the
other."
He recalled that doctors in the state had earlier
embarked on 13 months strike due to the failure of the state government to
accept the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure as prescribed by the federal government
as the standard for all doctors in the federal civil services.
Chukwuma said the strike was called off after the
intervention of eminent persons, and an agreement reached and a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) was signed, which stipulated that the government would
periodically review the salaries until 100 per cent was achieved, starting from
50 per cent.
He said the federal government in 2014 reviewed the
CONMESS upwards.
According to Chukwuma, "This is in spite of
all efforts made for the state government to see reason, including a warning
strike in 2019, still the review has not affected our salaries."
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