The Federal Government has agreed to increase the retirement age of Doctors and other health workers from sixty to sixty-five years and seventy years for Consultants.
The government also dangled an offer to increase hazard allowance of five thousand naira for all health workers in its health establishments across the country by three hundred and fifty per cent and six hundred per cent increments for junior and senior workers respectively.
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, announced these after a meeting between the Federal Government and representatives of all the professional bodies and unions in the health sector.
A statement issued by the Deputy Director Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr. Charles Akpan said the meeting, held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa Abuja, deliberated on the issue of hazard allowance and retirement age for health workers in government health establishments.
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