Are you one of those asking why doctors are strike lovers? Allowing poor Nigerians to die untimely? Here are their questionable 24 points demand for your consumption. (1) APPOINTMENT OF THE POST OF THE DEPUTY CMAC IN HOSPITALS. (2) NMA IS OPPOSED TO THE APPOINTMENT OF OTHER DIRECTORS IN HOSPITALS. (3) NMA DEMANDS THAT GRADE LEVEL 12 SHOULD BE SKIPPED BY DOCTORS. (4 ) APPOINTMENT OF OTHER MEDICAL PERSONNEL AS CONSULTANTS (5) RELATIVITY IN HEALTH SECTOR (6) NATIONAL HEALTH BILL. (7) THE APPOINTMENT OF SURGEON GENERAL. (8) THE ENTRY POINT OF HOUSE OFFICER TO BE ON CONMESS 1 STEP 4 (9) CLINICAL ALLOWANCES FOR HONORARY CONSULTANTS TO BE INCREASED BY 90% OF CONMESS. (10) NMA, with the huge sum they are paid, still wants adjustment in their specialist allowance to be paid to all doctors on CONMESS 3 and above, and must be paid its equivalent that is not less than 50% higher than what is paid to other Health Workers. (11) NMA is calling for Government to pay her members 100,000 naira every month as just hazard allowance. 12) NMA insists on immediate release of circulars on rural posting, teaching and other allowance which must include House Officers. (13) NMA calls for immediate withdrawal of CBN circular authorizing the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigerian (MLSCN) to approve licenses for the importation of in vitro diagnostics (IVDS). (14) NMA wants immediate release of circular on retirement age. (15) NMA wants Overseas Training for its residency program. (16) NMA insist on payment of salaries of her member in Owerri. Her members should also meet part of their own responsibilities and agreement as workers. NMA must learn to obey constituent authority, and must make her members to be amenable to discipline. (17) NMA members wants to be placed back on IPPIS platform. (18) NMA wants their House Officers to be part of NARD-National Association of Resident Doctors. (19) NMA accuses Medical Laboratory Scientists of harassment. (20) NMA says-‘the endless circles of incomplete salary payment to our members in many hospital in the name of short falls in personal cost must stop’. (21) NMA in her number 21 demand states ‘universal application of all establishment circulars on remuneration and condition of service for doctors at all levels of Government must be guaranteed’. (22) NMA demands that Government must urgently set up a health trust fund that will enhance the upgrading of hospitals. (23) APPOINTMENT INTO THE OFFICE OF THE CMD/MD. (24) NMA wants to dictate on how Optometrist or Medical Physicist should be paid.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 18:19:35 +0000
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