{"id":18813,"date":"2021-04-08T06:18:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T05:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=18813"},"modified":"2021-04-08T06:18:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T05:18:01","slug":"why-doctors-are-still-being-paid-n5000-as-hazard-allowance-nigerias-labour-minister-ngige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/04\/08\/why-doctors-are-still-being-paid-n5000-as-hazard-allowance-nigerias-labour-minister-ngige\/","title":{"rendered":"Why doctors are still being paid N5000 as hazard allowance – Nigeria’s labour minister, Ngige"},"content":{"rendered":"

The minister of labour and productivity, Chris Ngige has revealed why doctors in Nigeria are being paid N5,000 as hazard allowance.<\/p>\n

According to Ngige, doctors are being paid such amount because they have not called for a review of the amount.<\/p>\n

Recall that the doctors had\u00a0embarked on an indefinite strike on April 1<\/a><\/strong>, owing to the federal government\u2019s failure to pay their owed allowances and salaries.<\/p>\n

The minister while speaking during an NTA programme on Wednesday said the last review of the hazard allowance was done in 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe director constituted us into a committee on this because the minister then was waiting for this document.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was when your hazard came and since then the other medical persons<\/a> agitated to get into that N5,000 \u2014 nurses, midwives, radiologist \u2014 people started coming into that N5,000 from that 1991, implementation started in 1992.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last group of people that came in I think was in 2009. That was when it was reviewed for everybody to have N5,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cNMA because they are the parent body abdicated their responsibilities and ran away because other people have come into N5,000. They did not make any move now to ask for that allowance to be reviewed and adjusted. They are now sharing it with other people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ngige said he was not aware that the doctors were still being paid N5,000 as hazard allowance until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t even know it was still N5,000 until we started COVID and when I mentioned it in the economic sustainability committee, both the minister of finance and the vice-president said N,5000 for somebody working in a health sector? It is criminal. The vice-president is a lawyer, finance minister is an accountant,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told me: you have to do something. Please we leave it to you. I convened the meeting immediately in my house under COVID and we gave them a special COVID hazard allowance that was up to 1,000 percent of N5,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people went home for the three months with N600,000, that is N200,000 a month, some N300,000. My professor friend and classmate told me it was hazard that protected him through ASUU strike, that he got N350,000 every month.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo government paid N32 billion for three months. What was in the COVID budget for it was N20 billion. We started paying and we couldn\u2019t go round, and I had to make a special case, fought in the economic sustainability committee because there is no money and minister of finance had to go outside the COVID budget of N500 billion to get another N12 billion for the payment. That is N32 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) president, who also featured on the programme, said the federal government has not shown sincerity in honouring the memorandum of action (MoA) it signed with the union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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