The Medical and Dental Consultants of Nigeria (MDCAN) of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital (COOUTH), Anambra State, has begun indefinite strike over issues of salary and general working condition.
Chairman of MDCAN, COOUTH chapter, Dr. Chukwudi Okani, who signed the notice, directed members to shut down their units and discharge patients before proceeding, just.
He also urged them to disregard any information regarding the strike from other quarters than the MDCAN executive.
According to the consultants, they would return to work on the condition that Anambra government pays them minimum of 70 per cent of the revised Consolidated Medical Salary Scale (CONMESS).
But Anambra government, through the Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. C-Don Adinuba, said it had met the demands of the doctors, including diagnostics and conditions of service for COOUTH, which guaranteed their promotions.
Meanwhile, the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) has developed a policy framework for the stoppage of sexual harassment on the students by lecturers.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Francis Eze, disclosed this yesterday while briefing journalists on the institution’s convocation slated for Saturday, November 7.
According to Eze, the institution has established an outfit that converts wastes to products such as bottles, shredded cards to paints, inter-locking stones and tiles. The outfit is manned by Dr. Nnamdi Iheaturu of Department of Polymer and Textile, and the Chief Laboratory Supervisor, Mr. Vincent Uchegbu.
Sixty-two students will bag first class degrees out of the 2,554 students who will be graduating.
Visitor of the institution, President Muhammadu Buhari, is expected at the occasion. Theguardianng
