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Kano Doctors Start Warning Strike Despite Cholera Outbreak
FROM ADAMU ABUH, KANO
Members of the Kano State chapter of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) yesterday rose from an emergency meeting with a resolve to start a two-day warning strike over poor remuneration and condition of service, effective tomorrow.
The planned strike is coming on the heels of the outbreak of cholera epidemic in no fewer than 10 councils of the state, which has claimed 41 lives so far.
President of the association, Dr Mohammed Sani Umar, who told journalists at the Murtala Mohammed Hospital in Kano that the strike will commence tomorrow noted that the action became necessary after officials of the state government turned deaf ears to their demands.
Umar, flanked by some of his colleagues, disclosed that an indefinite strike would follow the warning strike if the Kano State government refuses to accede to their demands.
Among others, the doctors are demanding for the implementation of the 22 percent Hattis salary scale, as applicable to their colleagues in other states, and other improved welfare packages like accommodation.
Umar said it is unfortunate that doctors in Kano who work round the clock attending to patients from neighboring states of Kaduna, Jigawa, Katsina and Damagaram in Niger Republic are the least paid compared to their colleagues in other states in the north.
"The government is yet to implement the new pay package for us despite our workload," he said. "Members of the association carry out herculean duties but they go home with comparatively meager salaries.
"Our condition of service is poor, so poor that even doctors who are indigenes of the state prefer to work elsewhere than here in Kano. We are constrained to embark on the strike after exhausting all means to solve our problems. The parity is too wide that it has the effect of lowering the moral of our doctors and even encourage them to leave for better places."
The Kano State government is expected to react to the request of the doctors this week.
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