Resident doctors in Rivers State have
threatened to embark on an indefinite
strike from next week if Governor
Rotimi Amaechi fails to pay their five
months salary arrears.
Most of the doctors who work at
Braithwaithe Memorial Specialist
Hospital, Port Harcourt, the state
capital, said they would begin the
strike from next week unless the
salaries of doctors on internship and
housemanship were paid immediately.
President of the Association of
Resident Doctors, ARD, Dr. Furo
Tawari, who issued the warning in
Port Harcourt told journalists that
over 100 house or resident doctors
serving at the specialist hospital were
yet to be paid their salaries for five
months.
Tawari stated that based on the
assurances of those who intervened
in the matter and received
commitment from Governor Amaechi
that the salary arrears would be paid
next week, the association would give
the state government the opportunity
to fulfill its promise.
He warned that the failure of the
government to pay the salaries would
compel the doctors to stop work.
The ARD president said, in the past,
several appeals were made to the
government on the matter without
any positive response even as he
declared that ARD was a non-partisan
body and would like to avoid the
disruption of activities at the
hospital. He added that the
association was also interested in the
welfare of the patients and would
only resort to strike option if the
pleas of the association were ignored.
Tawari said, as medical doctors, ‘’We
must be physically and mentally
balanced to attend to patients’’, and
lamented the current emotional state
of his colleagues over their unpaid
salaries.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the
Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, in
Rivers, Dr. Furo Green, has called for
end to the continued kidnapping of
doctors in the state.
At a press conference in Port
Harcourt, Green lamented that, in the
last one week, three medical doctors
had been abducted by gunmen in the
state.
He said two of the doctors were
released with gunshot wounds while
another, Dr. Owhunda Jack, a
consultant at BMSH, was still in the
den of his abductors.
According to him, ‘’In the last five
days, two doctors had been
kidnapped and the third one shot,
following an unsuccessful attempt at
kidnapping him.
‘’Dr Jack Owhunda Omodu was
kidnapped on Monday, February 16
about 7am at work. He has been in
the kidnappers’ den since then.
‘’Consequently, he could not run his
operation list, nor be available to see
his patients in a ward round, ‘’ Green
said.
He warned that if the abductors of his
colleague refused to let him go,
doctors in the state might be forced
to withdraw their services within 24
hours.
Green warned that, “We shall no
longer sit back and endure the kidnap
of any doctor in Rivers State.”
Nigerian Pilot gathered that abductors
of the medical doctor are demanding
a ransom of N80million for his
release.
http://nigerianpilot.com/strike-looms-as-gov-amaechi-owes-doctors-5-months-salaries/

amechi pay their salary naa.stop using their money for this your bitter politics.

He has spent there salaries on BUHARI'S campaign.

Amaechi, Buhari hand Bag!!!!

You better pay up now, before you see your name on AIT or Documentary

How will he pay when he is busy using d money for buhari's campaign

Rivers students on foreign scholarship are currently crying out and protesting cos Ameachi has not paid their stipends for months.

The clown is buying visiting and following Buhari from one corner the earth to the other, spending Rivers money outlandishly and forgetting his main duty as a Gov.

But then again, according to the children of Anger, Ameachi is now a 'Progressive'. So any tin he does is both Progressive and good

Y'all above me are propaganda machineries. The young man is in rivers state hustling to make a successor in Dakuku, people are blabbing about him funding Buhari. Smh

he has spent all the money on buhari's useless campaign. useless man.

U will soon see dem wif mouth odour shouting sai baba sai baba!

This mad man amaechi would have rather gone to Las Vegas to gamble with d Rivers commonwealth instead of investing in that folly venture of a buhari campaign.

These are your agents of change

Kennywills7:
How will he pay when he is busy using d money for buhari's campaign

i wonder o. Amaechi is a senseless man.

OREMUSSANCTUS:
U will soon see dem wif mouth odour shouting sai baba sai baba!

chronic mouth odour.

Chai..Amechi done fall mugu oo ...APC n Tinubu done use this fool clean nyash...I pity Rivers people..

I don't know why the PDP are unable to expose these craze. The greatest error of the GEJ govt is the passage of the FOI. Some Nigerians don't value freedom. They are so addicted to the military approach. If not so, who will prefer GMB to GEJ?

lokito:
Y'all above me are propaganda machineries. The young man is in rivers state hustling to make a successor in Dakuku, people are blabbing about him funding Buhari. Smh

okay... He is using the money to sponsor Dakuku...

Lolzzzz

Roti mi is a progressive governor so he is not owing any body

Nigerian doctors that do not allow anybody to owe them - this report looks political.

Amaechi has spent all of Rivers state money sponsoring Buhari yet he is relegated to being an errand boy.

Buhahahaha! He don spend all the money untop campaign.

Can u see the difference between Fayose of Ekiti nd Amaechi of rivers?

GEJ till 2019.