Medical docs within the service of the Kwara authorities on Thursday commenced a seven-day warning strike over unresolved welfare considerations.
The placing docs additionally raised concern about deductions from their salaries for the Kwara Health Insurance Scheme (KHIS).
The chairman of MDCAN, Dr Adeola Olasinde, mentioned the choice to embark on a warning strike was reached at their congress held on October 14, 2026 following the expiration of a 14-day ultimatum issued to the state authorities.
Olasinde acknowledged that the ultimatum, which ran from October 1 to October 14, was to deal with welfare considerations, together with the alleged wage deductions for the Kwara Health Insurance Scheme.
According to him, there’s additionally the problem of non-implementation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS); the official wage scale for medical docs and dental surgeons in Nigerian authorities service.
Olasinde urged the federal government to reverse the 2 per cent wage deduction for the KHIS and provoke fee of authorised 2025 and 2026 accoutrement allowance arrears.
He additionally known as for the recruitment of home officers, medical officers, resident docs and consultants throughout healthcare amenities.
They additionally demanded renovation of the home officers’ quarters in Teaching Hospitals and institution of the Governing Board of the Kwara State University Teaching Hospital (KWASUTH) in accordance with its enabling Act.
He clarified that their place was not in opposition to medical insurance or authorities’s efforts to broaden entry to reasonably priced healthcare.
Olasinde known as on Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and related authorities to intervene urgently, and handle the calls for.
In his response, the medical director of KWASUTH, Dr Ahmed Abdul-Qadir, appealed to the placing docs to return to work to forestall avoidable lack of lives.
AbdulQadir mentioned the hospital was working at full capability, with critically sick sufferers within the wards and Intensive Care Unit, together with girls who had not too long ago undergone surgical procedure.
He described the scenario as unlucky and urged the medical associations to resolve the dispute rapidly within the curiosity of sufferers.
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