Medical doctors in Abia State, today suspended their six months old industrial action to enable the present administration to offset the backlog of unpaid salaries.
Dr Isaiah Abali, the Chairman of the Abia Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, announced the suspension at a news briefing in Umuahia.
In a communique jointly signed by Abali and Secretary, Daniel Ekeleme, the doctors said they decided to extend an olive branch to the current government to look for a way of resolving the crisis.
The chairman disclosed that the Abia State University Teaching Hospital Hospitals Management Board (HMB) and Ministry of Health were being owed 23, 16 and two months’ salary arrears, respectively.
He said that the immediate past administration of Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu did not make any reasonable and acceptable commitment of paying the salaries.
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