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IMSUTH doctors, govt trade blame over hazard allowances as eight-month strike continues
Angela Onwuzoo
Resident doctors at the Imo State University Teaching Hospital, Orlu, say the Governor Hope Uzodinma administration has not paid them any COVID-19 hazard allowance, despite setting up an isolation centre at the institution for the treatment and management of those who tested positive for the virus.
The resident doctors have been on strike for over seven months now to press home their various demands bordering on incomplete salary payment, non-implementation of the revised 2014 Consolidated Medical Salary Structure, and loss of accreditation for undergraduate medical education at Imo State University, among others.
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Moeti, in a tweet on Sunday @MoetiTshidi on Sunday, expressed concern over the development.
Recall that Guinea’s Ministry of Health had reported that four people died of Ebola in a resurgence of the disease that first emerged five years ago.
She said “WHO is ramping up readiness and response efforts to this potential resurgence of Ebola in West Africa, a region which suffered so much from Ebola in 2014,’’ Moeti said.
Meanwhile, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recorded a fresh case of Ebola in the North Kivu province of the country.
WHO stated that DRC announced that a new case of Ebola had been detected in Butembo, a city in North Kivu Province, where a previous outbreak was declared in June 2020.
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Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has decried the level of corruption in the state’s healthcare system, noting that his administration will insist on a new order to ensure that doctors serve Edo people to justify their pay. x
He stated this at a meeting with doctors from the Edo State Hospital Management Board, Specialist Hospital, Primary Healthcare Agency and Ministry of Health in Benin City.
Obaseki said his administration would resist the old order and chart a new course aimed at improving the state’s healthcare system, lamenting that the level of corruption in the healthcare system was worrisome.
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to tackle the security challenges in the country. Ortom in a letter to Buhari,