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Federal Government To Recover Millions Of Naira Wrongly Paid To 588 Doctors

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Chris Ngige

The federal authorities has revealed it’s planning to get better tens of millions of naira wrongly paid to medical doctors.

The federal government of President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to get better tens of millions of naira wrongly paid to 588 medical medical doctors.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, acknowledged this when he fielded questions from State Home correspondents in Abuja, in line with NAN.

He defined that affected medical doctors wrongly benefitted from Medical Residency Coaching Fund meant for a specific class of medical doctors.

He stated the names of the medical doctors have been uncovered after a radical scrutinisation of the 8000 names submitted by Chief Medical Administrators of Federal Authorities well being establishments for the coaching programme.

The minister, nevertheless, revealed {that a} substantial quantity of the cash had been refunded by a few of the affected medical doctors whereas efforts had been intensified to get better the remaining steadiness.

He maintained that the delay in making the refund by the affected medical doctors was holding again the Residency Fund cost by the federal government.

Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, acknowledged this when he fielded questions from State Home correspondents in Abuja.

He defined that affected medical doctors wrongly benefitted from Medical Residency Coaching Fund meant for a specific class of medical doctors.

He stated the names of the medical doctors have been uncovered after a radical scrutinisation of the 8000 names submitted by Chief Medical Administrators of Federal Authorities well being establishments for the coaching programme.

The minister, nevertheless, revealed {that a} substantial quantity of the cash had been refunded by a few of the affected medical doctors whereas efforts had been intensified to get better the remaining steadiness.

He maintained that the delay in making the refund by the affected medical doctors was holding again the Residency Fund cost by the federal government.

”Ministry of Well being has gotten the record of doctors who supposedly are to benefit from the Medical Residency Coaching Fund.

”Whole submission of about 8000 names have been gotten and the Ministry of Well being is scrutinising them.

”We now have executed the primary spherical of scrutinization and they’re going to now examine what they’ve with the Publish-Graduate Medical Faculty and the Chief Medical Administrators who submitted the names.

“The Affiliation of Resident Docs, in every of the tertiary centres, labored with the CMDs to provide these names, however now that the names are being verified.

”We found that about 2000 names shouldn’t be there as a result of they don’t have what is known as Postgraduate Reference Numbers of Nationwide Postgraduate Medical Faculty and (or) that of the West African Postgraduate Medical Faculty.

“So, that is it and that’s the solely factor holding again the Residency Fund cost as a result of it’s there already for… incurred expenditure has been executed by the Finance Minister and it’s within the Accountant-Common’s workplace.,” he stated.

”So, as soon as they confirm the authenticity of these they’re submitting, the Accountant-Common pays.

“We’re doing that verification as a result of we don’t want what occurred final time in 2020 to reoccur.

In 2020, the submitted names didn’t come by way of the suitable supply, which is the Postgraduate Medical Faculty and cost was affected and it was found that about 588 individuals, who weren’t resident medical doctors benefited from such cash.

”They’re now discovering it troublesome to make the total refund. However they should refund that cash. Some are refunding, however there is no such thing as a full consideration of the account.

”That account needs to be reconciled to allow the accountants to pay the following spherical of funding for 2021,” he stated.

On the continued strike by Resident Docs, Ngige expressed the readiness of the Federal Authorities to withdraw the case it instituted towards them if they might return to their obligation put up.

He, nevertheless, insisted that the ‘no work, no pay’ coverage of the federal government could be noticed as a result of ”it’s a international follow which can also be captured in Part 43 of the Commerce Dispute Act below the Worldwide Labour Organisation, ILO.”