Ngige: Why doctors are still being paid N5,000 as hazard allowance
April 07
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The doctors had embarked on an indefinite strike on April 1, owing to the federal government’s failure to pay their owed allowances and salaries.
Speaking during an NTA programme on Wednesday, the minister said the last review of the hazard allowance was done in 2009.
“The hazard allowance for medical doctors came on board in 1991 under circular 1 of 1991. There were three of us that wrote that circular. I was there as deputy director,” he said.
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“The director constituted us into a committee on this because the minister then was waiting for this document.
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