Barring any last minute changes, doctors employed by the Lagos State Government will Today begin a three-day warning strike, at the expiration of the 21 days ultimatum.
Dr. Oluwajimi Sodipo, Chairman of the Medical Guild of Lagos made this known during a press briefing yesterday.
“The doctors working in the COVID-19 isolation centres are still being owed two months’ salaries which have remained unpaid at the moment. They are also being unceremoniously disengaged without recourse to their welfare,” he asserted.
He said, they had earlier warned that if 70 per cent of the Guild’s demands were not met before the expiration of the deadline, they would activate the three day warning strike.
Some of the demands by the doctors include; payment of COVID-19 hazard allowance and inducement allowances; approval of the MOU for state doctors that has long been approved by the federal government to her doctors, addressing the issue of shortage of doctors in the health facilities, among others.
