You repair bridges and highways, and you owe medical personnel Doctors on strike criticize Wike

By Daily Sports Nigeria on January 23, 2025

Striking resident doctors in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, have blasted the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, for neglecting health facilities and workers’ welfare in the nation’s capital, Abuja

Speaking on Channels Television on Wednesday, the President of resident doctors in the FCT, George Ebong, said though Wike has been busy fixing roads, he has abandoned government-owned health institutions in the nation’s capital with many in deplorable condition.

“That’s just where we have our concerns. The minister has been very busy with projects, fixing roads, and all of that. We feel that he should also focus on the hospitals right now.

“We feel that we are the human abandoned project. No matter the things he does by fixing roads and bridges, the hospitals are the very first point of innovation and rehabilitation. They are hallowed ground; he cannot neglect them,” he said.

CITYNOBS recalls that the doctors began a three-day warning strike on Wednesday over unpaid salaries, and allowances, among others after the expiration of a three-week ultimatum issued earlier.

The development grounded activities at government hospitals in Abuja from Wuse to Asokoro, Maitama, Kubwa, Zuba, Kwali, Abaji, Nyanya, and others.

According to Ebong, doctors sometimes don’t have electricity to work, with no drugs in hospitals and no sufficient manpower.

He complained that only one doctor man some hospitals in Abuja.

Ebong said many doctors have not been paid their six months’ salaries despite working hard and taking on the responsibilities of four or more persons.

“I urge the minister to please try to ensure that all the wages are paid. I urge the minister to please visit all the hospitals and see the state in which the hospitals are at the moment,” he said

Source Daily Sports Nigeria

Posted January 23, 2025


 

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