The Federal Government has promised to clear an eight-month arrears owed midwives employed under the Midwives Service scheme in Nigeria.
The midwives, about 7, 000 of them, had planned to embark on a protest in demand of their allowances which was last paid by the NPHCDA in September, 2014 for August 2014.
The payment will be made by May, according to a communique signed by the Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Ado Muhammad, the National President, MSS, Grace Shamonda, and the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Linus Awute.
The parties said the allowances were owed by the agency due to the delayed passage of the national budget and agreed that, “The allowances will be paid upon budgetary release within May, 2015″.
The MSS was established in 2009 and is managed by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency to address the high rate of maternal and child mortality in Nigeria.
According to Premium Times, some of the midwives, owed for eight months, opted out of the scheme for better paid jobs within and outside the country. Most of the midwives said they live of money borrowed from friends and members of communities they are deployed to while some receive help from parents.
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