FG To Pay Health Workers’ June Hazard Allowance Next Week

The Federal Government on Thursday said it would commence the payment of hazard allowance to health workers tackling the COVID-19 pandemic next week.

The government would start the payment of the hazard allowance with six hospitals in the country, according to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige.

Nigige who disclosed this after a meeting with the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) in Abuja, on Thursday, noted that the payment is for the month of June.

On the residency training for doctors, the minister disclosed that the Federal Ministry of Health, and the Budget Office of the Federation, working in tandem with the Federal Ministry of Finance, had rectified the problem in the budget while the processing would commence soon.

He said: “Teaching hospitals and medical centres had been directed to submit to the Ministry of Health, the list of names of their personnel who had some hitches in receiving their payments, the names would then be forwarded to IPPIS (Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System) from there.”

He disclosed that the issue of shortfall in payments had also been addressed while the names of the affected persons would be compiled and forwarded to the ministry of finance.