The Association of Resident Doctors, at the Ondo State University Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH), Akure, has directed its members to proceed on a seven-day warning strike.
The strike action, the resident doctors said, is to protest the non-payment of their four months salaries, allowances and entitlements.
Expressing their displeasure over the development, the doctors on Monday morning converged on the hospital complex and marched to the office of the Chief Medical Director, to table their grievances.
According to the resident doctors, the state government has refused to pay their salaries for about four months and threatened to embark on an indefinite strike next Monday if the government failed to attend to their demands.
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The resident doctors frowned over a situation where other health workers under health management board are receiving their salaries regularly without paying the salaries of resident doctors
The spokesman of the aggrieved doctors, Dr Taiwo Olagbe, appealed to well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the state government to settle their unpaid salaries.
Speaking while addressing the aggrieved doctors, the Physician in Charge, Dr Adesina Adetan, said the government was doing everything to ensure that “your salary is moved into the mainstream system”.
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