NMA warns against review of allowances for medical, dental officers
• Says It Will Debilitate Already Fragile Healthcare Sector
The Nigeria Clinical Association (NMA), Edo Reveal Branch, on Friday, expressed trouble over primarily the most recent circular issued by the Nationwide Salaries, Earnings, and Wages Commission, on June 27, 2025, with regards to the assessment of allowances for Clinical and Dental Officers in the Federal public service, announcing the transfer would extra debilitate the already fragile healthcare sector.
In an announcement in Benin, Chairman, Nigeria Clinical Association, Edo Reveal Branch, Dr. Eustace Oseghale, talked about the transfer would extra bog down the already fragile healthcare sector.
He lamented that the decision of the Nationwide Salaries, Earnings, and Wages Commission on the assessment of allowances for scientific and dental officers in the federal public service modified into once unacceptable.
He talked about the decision demonstrated a stark insensitivity to the prevailing financial realities and “flagrantly disregards the meticulously negotiated collective bargaining agreements.”
Oseghale renowned that it is disheartening that this decision came at a time when keeping and motivating the scarce healthcare personnel in the nation is an uphill job.
The observation reads: “The Nigeria Clinical Association, Edo Reveal Branch, expresses its profound disappointment and disillusionment with primarily the most recent circular issued by the Nationwide Salaries, Earnings, and Wages Commission on June 27, 2025, with regards to the assessment of allowances for Clinical and Dental Officers in the Federal public service.
“This circular demonstrates a stark insensitivity to the prevailing financial realities and flagrantly disregards the meticulously negotiated collective bargaining agreements. Moreover, this would possibly perhaps perhaps extra debilitate the already fragile healthcare sector.
“It is particularly disheartening that this decision comes at a time when keeping and motivating the scarce healthcare personnel in the nation is an uphill job.
“We unequivocally reject this circular and plug related stakeholders and well-which design Nigerians to intervene promptly to protect the pursuits of Nigeria’s patients, who surely deserve better.
“The NBA, Edo Reveal Branch, will align herself with the modern plot of the nationwide body to protect scientific practice and patients’ well-being in the nation, “ Oseghale talked about.
Desire that the nationwide leadership of the NMA has called for instantaneous intervention by President Bola Tinubu, honest because it handed over a 21-day ultimatum to the Federal Authorities to return up with a original circular that shows old agreements reached between the duo to avert disruption in health products and services.
