The Association of Resident Doctors FCTA (ARD FCTA) has advised the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System to be more thorough in discharging their duties.
This is to prevent none payment of the Doctors salaries.
The President of the Association, Dr. Roland Aigbovo, gave the advice at a press briefing on the associations’ 2020 Annual Health Week in Abuja.
He said that “one of the challenges facing the association is irregularities associated in the payment of promotion allowances of its member by the IPPIS.”
Untold hardship
Dr. Aigbovo said that the none performance of the IPPIS has caused untold hardship to workers all over Nigeria.
He urged the government to put mechanisms in place to ensure that people do their work or get punished for not doing it.
“IPPIS has become a hydra headed monster. It is the failure of the system. People have been employed to do something and they are not doing it, those systems do not update themselves. People do. So, if they are not doing what they are paid to do, they should be sjown the way out and allow those who want to work to do so,” Dr. Aigbovo said.
He also appealed to the minister of the FCT to look into the issues affecting the NMA FCT.
“There are still a lot of issues yet to be resolved. We hope that they’ll be resolved soon. Like promotion and skipping areas,” Dr. Aigbovo said.
On the 2020 Annual Medical Week, the President noted that a lot of activities have been mapped out, including a medical outreach to Egbu community in the FCT that is ravaged by Schistosomiasis, a disease caused by infectios from water.
He added that papers would be presented by eminent personalities.
The theme of the FCT NMA 2020 Health Week is ” Disease Outbreak in Nigeria. Are We ever ready”.
Lateefah Ibrahim
