The Chief Medical Director of University College Hospital (UCH) , Professor Temitope Alonge on Monday promised to effect the implementation of the 2013 Government circular on skipping of doctors on the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS).
Resident Doctors in the premier teaching hospital had been on strike to enforce the implement of the CONMESS by the management.
At a press conference held in the institution, Alonge said
“If the Budget Office of the Federation makes funds available today through supplementary budget, the hospital is duty bound to pay immediately,”
While lamenting the adverse effects of the lingering strike by the Resident Doctors which entered its 102 days, the CMD remarked that the payment of skipping was not captured in the 2015 personnel budget of any tertiary health institutions in keeping with the position of the management of the UCH.
“Management of the University College Hospital is therefore using the media to appeal to the resident doctors of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, to call off this strike and return to their duty and training posts in the interest of Nigerians seeking health care services in the hospital.
“If the Budget Office of the Federation makes funds available today through supplementary budget, the hospital is duty bound to pay immediately.”
In a swift reaction, the President of the Association of Resident Doctors, UCH Branch, Dr. Luqman Ogunjimi told newsmen that a congress of members would hold on Tuesday to consider the appeal and take a decision on whether or not to shift ground in their demands.
The ARD President however urged the UCH management to utilize an alleged N1 billion surplus in the hospital’s Personnel Budget to settle the bills under contention while awaiting its formal inclusion in the 2016 Fiscal Budget.
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