FG Approves Fresh Allowance For Doctors, Dentists | READ DETAILS

The Federal Government has approved N25,000 peculiar allowance for medical doctors and dentists in hospitals, medical centres, and clinics in the federal public service.

This was contained in a letter dated July 26, 2023, titled ‘Accoutrement allowance for medical and dental doctors in hospitals, medical centres, and clinics in federal MDAs’.

According to the letter, the allowance is to be paid from the overhead budget. It added that the “approval takes effect from June 1, 2023”.

“The Federal Government has approved the payment of an Accoutrement allowance of twenty-five naira (N25,000.00) per quarter to Medical and Dental Doctors in hospitals, medical centres, and clinics in the Federal Public Service. The allowance is to be paid from the overhead budget” the letter read.

Reacting, the President, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) said;

“The fundamental thing is that we are still studying it because what we agreed with them was 25 per cent and 35 per cent for salary and allowance, except hazard allowance, which was recently reviewed upwards; but what we saw was only for salary, and we do not know whether allowances are covered or not.

“For now, while we are grateful, they have started doing the right thing, we look forward to their doing it completely, agreement should be agreement as we had with the last administration. It was meant to take effect from January 2023. The agreement is that every increment is for salary and allowances but what we have seen is salary. So, we are waiting for allowances, by next week, we will put out our position.”