Lagos — Unless the State government shifts its ground and pays all outstanding salaries owed its doctors due to previous strikes, the public would from next Monday experience a shutdown of government hospitals.

The threat to embark on an indefinite strike from March 16 was issued on Tuesday by the Guild of Doctors in a notice signed by its chairman, Dr Biyi Kufo.

According to the press statement, the chairman noted that since the doctors called off the last 3-day warning strike on January 20, government had not shown "little in terms of a positive response" to their requests.

He said this led to the review of the situation at a general meeting of the Guild last Wednesday and following deliberations, a 10-day grace period was given to the administration to resolve the issues.

His words: "The house directed that, if resolution was not achieved at the end of this period, members of the Guild should proceed on an indefinite strike from Monday the 16th of March, 2015.The house also directed that emergency services be provided during the action", Kufo said.

The chairman of the Guild pointed out that the issues in contention include: "the continued employment of doctors as casual (contract) workers; the non-employment of resident doctors in the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH); and the discriminatory application of the state's 'no work, no pay' policy to members of the Medical Guild in the period between April/May 2012 and September 2014".

He observed that several efforts had been made by the body of doctors through representation of the state Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) and the National NMA as well as through elders of the profession to appeal to government to rescind its decision not to pay the doctors' salaries but to no avail.

The chairman averred that government continues to hold the doctors hostage in order to hold the people hostage and pleaded that stakeholders wade into the issue before the expiration of the notice.

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The Wind of Change is blowing

APC, Changing!

Abi na change?

Another change state is about to go on strike. First it was that crazy jihadist AregbeRascal now is boy boy governor

Fashola pay your doctors stop donating their money to the supreme overlord of lagos,the asiwaju of corruption,the king of theives and the owner of lagos tinubu.Boy boy governor pay up

Lagos is the model state if APC with boy boy governor Fashola as their poster face but common salaries they cannot pay not minding the billons generated internally and federal allocation how can they handle Nigeria

Behold your change agents nigeria

Strike in another "progressive" state . GEJ till 2019!!!