Resident doctors at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Yaba, Lagos, have announced they will begin a one-week warning strike on Monday, July 7, over unpaid salaries and poor welfare conditions.
The doctors, under the Association of Resident Doctors, said newly employed residents had worked for five months without receiving any pay. In a statement issued Friday, the group said the situation had become unbearable and must be addressed urgently.
“The congress observed with despair that the June salary window had closed without the new residents receiving their first salaries,” the statement said. “After working for five months, it is unacceptable for doctors to continue without pay.”
The communiqué was signed by the association’s president, Babarinsa O. A., and secretary, Disu K. B.
They accused the hospital management of allowing the problem to continue for years, despite several attempts to find a solution. They also said the delay in salary payment was not happening in other training hospitals.
The doctors warned that if the affected residents are not paid by the end of July, they would go on an indefinite strike.
They described the continued delay in salary as harmful to the welfare of doctors and dangerous to the quality of medical care at the hospital.
