Resident Doctors at the Ondo State University Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital (UNIMEDTH), Akure, have begun a warning strike over unpaid salary.
The health practitioners under the aegis of the Association of Resident Doctors have also begun shutting down activities in government hospitals in Akure and Ondo town, asking for the payment of their four months salaries.
Spokesman of the aggrieved doctors, Dr. Taiwo Olagbe, while addressing journalists in Akure on Monday, warned that if the state government failed to pay the backlog of four months salaries, they would embark on indefinite strike starting from Monday next week.
He said, “Our situation has reached the crescendo that we have to ventilate our matter to the people of the state and well-meaning Nigerians who can talk to the power-that-be to come and do something before the whole situation escalates.
“We can’t be subjected to mental torture when it comes to issue of our salaries. As we are talking today being November 2, 2020, we are being owed four months’
salaries.
“We keep asking ourselves if this is how we are going to continue in this vicious circle?”
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