The
Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has urged the anti-graft agencies to
audit all the 55 federal health institutions across the country and sanction
all culpable Chief Medical Directors (CMD) and Chief Executive Officers (CEO).
It
equally stated that since the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and all its
appendages are not trade unions, they should not be bargaining for privileges
for their members, much less undertake industrial actions.
In a
statement yesterday, the PSN President, Olumide Akintayo, faulted a recent
communiqué advocating that the Federal Government should factor payments
accruing from the skipping of salary scale to doctors in the federal health
institutions in the 2016 budget.
Akintayo
said the communiqué, which was read by one of the 55 CMDs, as usual, had no
consideration for the welfare of other health workers but doctors. Therefore,
“our position that the appointment of doctors as CEOs of federal health
institutions is one of the major precursors of avoidable stress junctions is
confirmed by this unfortunate development.
“As far
back as 2010, some cadre of health workers were granted concession to skip the
Consolidated
Health Salary Scheme (CONHESS) 10 by the National Industrial
Court, yet these same CEOs have frustrated the plans to pay these entitlements,
except in a few notable cases.
“It is
embarrassing that while some of the federal health institutions have not paid
allowances that have been due since 2010, they are bothered about payments that
have only been approved through circulars in the past six months.
“For the
records, the umbrella body of some cadres even cite situations where some CMDs
have been quoted as paying the skipping dues of doctors through internally
generated revenues, a development that amounts to illegality, as such funds
were never appropriated by the National Assembly in the first instance.
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