Medical doctors in the state government-owned hospitals in Kaduna and Abia state have lamented the non-payment of mounting salary arrears for 21 months and one year respectively.
The President, National Association of Resident Doctors, Barau Dikko Teaching Hospital Kaduna chapter, Dr Josiah Yakubu said, the doctors have been on strike for four months to press home their demands.
He listed some of the grievances of the doctors to include unpaid salary arrears, shortage of manpower, non-implementation of the latest CONMES and the non-payment of the 2024 Medical Residency Training Fund, among others.
Similarly, President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Dr Nnamdi Erondu, said members of the association doctors are owed 21-month salary arrears.
Erondu said despite the salary review last year, the state government has been using the old 2009 salary structure to pay salaries making the resident doctors of the respective states earn less than what others in other health facilities earn.