National Telescope national telescope newspaper
Bose Adelakun
The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has threatened a nation-wide strike.
This is as the group issued a 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to meet its demands or face industrial action.
This was made known in a communique signed by its President, Dr Victor Makanjuola, and Secretary-General, Dr Yemi Raji and obtained by NATIONAL TELESCOPE on Tuesday at the end of its extraordinary National Executive Council meeting which was held virtually.
The group expressed disappointment over the non-implementation of the jointly agreed upward review of CONMESS and the introduction of Accoutrement allowance with the Nigerian Medical Association, as the released circular only captured the percentage increase on the basic salary, as against applying it to both the basic salaries and all allowances except hazard allowance.
It read, “This error has resulted in the complete exclusion of the clinical lecturers (Honorary Consultants) from benefitting from the upward review. The commencement date for the new circular was agreed to be January 1, 2023, rather than June 1, 2023.
“We believe this error will be corrected without delay. The recent upward review of CONMESS did not take into consideration the consequences of the fuel subsidy removal and exponential inflation that has pervaded our socio-economic space in the past three months.
“Despite our association’s decision to keep faith with the engagement and negotiations with the National Salaries Incomes and Wages Commission for more than two years regarding the correction of the shortfalls in remuneration for Clinical Lecturers (Honorary Consultants), the issue is yet to be conclusively addressed by the Federal Government.”
