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April 01, 2008
Dearth of medical personnel KNSG moves to stop brain-drain...Health workers get pay perk increase
KANO state government, has in its usual benevolent disposition, particularly as it relates to workers in the state, put paid its promise by increasing the allowances of all medical personnel across the board.
By this gesture therefore, all professional and non-professional staff of the state Hospitals Management Board (HMB) have had their allowances raised beginning from yesterday.
A statement from the office of the Director-General of the Board, Dr. Ibrahim Adamu Yakasai and signed by the board’s PRO, Sani Abba Yola, said in this regard, call duty allowance for medical officers has been increased from its previous 240 per cent to 320 per cent, while that of pharmacists rose from 112 per cent to 160 per cent.
Similarly, nurses who hitherto were collecting a 75 per cent increase of their allowances, have already began to enjoy 137 per cent increase. Shifting allowance has also been upped from 30-50 per cent, the statement added.
Yakasai said the move became imperative following the shortage of health workers in the state, occasioned by poor salary and allowances which forced medical personnel to shun public hospitals for private or federal facilities in search of greener pasture, saying this prompted government to make an upward review of their allowances to keep them put..
According to him, in spite of government’s tireless efforts for improved healthcare delivery through adequate funding and supply of necessary working equipments and medicaments, such efforts had defied solution due to the acute shortage of health workers in the past.
Dr. Yakasai however, expressed optimism that this increase would no doubt bring about more conducive atmosphere for the personnel to be attracted to remaining in the state services.
He therefore appealed to all medical professionals to seek appointment with the board in view of the improved package so as to offer meaningful contributions for improved healthcare delivery in the state.
Sources at the board however, quoted the Director-General as saying that with this humane gesture offered the health workers by the magnanimous Shekarau administration, all the workers are therefore expected to reciprocate by being responsible and responsive to the demands of the state’s health care delivery system.
The health workers, it was further learnt, were also warned to buckle up for them to earn every kobo they are paid.
Posted by Publisher at April 1, 2008 01:13 PM
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