The Affiliation of Resident Doctors on the College of Uyo Educating Hospital (UUTH), Akwa Ibom State, has raised the alarm over the failure of the hospital administration to pay 5 months’ salary arrears owed to newly employed members, in addition to the delay in correcting their wrongly assigned CONMESS entry degree.
This was contained in a communiqué endorsed by Drs. Promise Jacob and Enam-Eti Akpan, President and Normal Secretary of the affiliation, respectively, in Uyo on Wednesday, on the finish of a digital emergency assembly held on Sunday, September 5.
The affiliation regretted the shortcoming of the administration to deal with a number of the considerations raised in its final communiqué of July 31 and October 1, 2025, saying it had no choice however to proceed on a seven-day warning strike efficient 8:00 a.m. on Monday, October 6, 2025.
A number of the considerations raised by the affiliation, as contained within the communiqué, embrace: “The 2023 set of employed residents are but to obtain their gathered salary arrears. Present manpower deficits throughout all departments are leading to rising workload, fatigue, and office burnout. The Home Officers’ Quarters and Name Rooms stay in a deplorable state, with negligible upkeep from the Works Division.”
The affiliation due to this fact known as on the hospital administration to appropriate and implement the right CONMESS entry degree for all newly employed resident doctors and re-issue appointment letters to mirror the corrected CONMESS degree, improve members to their present grade ranges with immediate cost of the corresponding arrears, and pay the three members affected by failed biometric seize instantly through the GIFMIS platform, pending correction on the IPPIS platform.
Different calls for raised by the affiliation embrace the pressing employment of further resident doctors throughout all departments to deal with manpower shortages and mitigate office burnout, in addition to the renovation and correct upkeep of the Home Officers’ Quarters and Name Rooms.
The communiqué concluded that an Emergency Normal Assembly (EGM) shall be convened on the expiration of the seven-day warning strike to assessment administration’s response and decide additional actions, even because it pledged readiness to ship high quality healthcare, however to not the detriment of members’ professional welfare.
