Amadu Lamrana Bah
The Sierra Leone Medical and Dental Association has ended their Press Conference at the Connaught Hospital today and confirmed that they will go ahead with their sit-down strike action on Wednesday, 23rd October 2024, over conditions of service, including fuel allocation to doctors.
Their 21-day notice to the government, which they said wasn’t countenance by the Ministry of Health, elapses tomorrow, Tuesday 22nd October 2024.
However, the Minister of Health, Dr. Austin Demby told Umaru Fofana that they have provided fuel for the first and second quarters and are finalizing plans to release their third quarter this week.
The Minister said they have met their side despite the competing financial needs of the state but the doctors said it would be more sustainable if they could receive their 45-liter fuel allocation with their monthly salary.
Meanwhile, His Excellency Julius Maada Bio, who recently returned to the country from a trip to the United Kingdom and the U.S is expected to have arrived in Samoa for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and he is also scheduled to attend a World Food Prize Foundation Event in Iowa, the United States of America from the 28th October to 2nd November 2024.
Indeed, our government has competing financial needs, and one important one is to ensure that money is always available for the President to fly with a private jet to some meetings where his Foreign Minister can ably represent him to reduce costs.
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