Hehehe...........Health facilities owned by state
governments are to pay the striking residents doctors working for them
and not the federal government, Minister of Health Prof. Isaac Adewole
has said.
The
minister stated this while answering questions from participants at the
annual family planning consultative stakeholders meeting in Abuja.
It
will be recalled that payment to affected health institutions was part
of the renegotiated MoU between the federal government and the National
Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) last week.
The
striking doctors were also expected to suspend the strike once there
was evidence of payment of the mandate to the affected institutions
presented to National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) meeting
last Friday.
Prof
Adewole said the Federal Government has paid the first batch of
affected hospitals, adding that eight hospitals were in the batch.
He said “The Federal Government does not pay state hospitals. It is the state that pays them.”
Daily Trust News
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