Doctors, under the umbrella of Osun State Association of Medical and Dental Officers, have threaten the State Government to pay their seven months salaries and remittance of contributory pension fund deducted from their salaries in order not to embark on indefinite strike.

The Chairman of OSAMDO, Dr. Isiaka Adekunle, who said this at a press conference in Osogbo on Thursday that if the state government fail to meet up with their request, they will embark on strike which will begin on Monday September, 28.

The doctors said they were not part of the Memorandum of Understanding which the labour unions in the state signed with the State Government recently.

He said, “Government should pay all outstanding salaries, union and cooperative deductions, leave bonuses and remit the backlog of contributory pensions deductions to the relevant pension fund administrators on or before Sunday, September 27, 2015, failure of which we embark on an indefinite withdrawal of our services from 00.00hours Monday, September 28, 2015.

“That aside from the payment of these arrears, government should put in place the machinery for immediate implementation of the revised COMNESS circular for medical and dental officers in Osun State.

“That the state government should clear the arrears of hospital running cost and restore the provision for same as it is not possible to run a hospital without running cost.

“That our association should be carried along in all subsequent negotiations of salaries and emoluments affecting our members as we are members of NLC.”

The doctors said they had never been paid full salaries contained in the CONMESS circular which was subsisting circular for payment of medical and dental officers all over the country.

All efforts to speak to the governor’s media aide, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, by our correspondent were unsuccessful. Calls put across to his telephone were not  connected.