Kwara NMA hails AbdukRazaq over allowance for health workers

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) on Tuesday, hailed Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for delivering on his words to pay frontline health workers daily allowances in appreciation of their work.

Kwara state Chairman of the NMA, Dr. Kolade Solagberu, said in a statement in Ilorin, the state capital, that AbdulRazaq has fulfilled his promise to pay decent allowances to all the health workers involved in the COVID-19 campaign.

While medical doctors are being paid N25,000 daily, all other categories of health workers in the frontline are getting varying allowances on a daily basis to encourage them to do more.

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“This is to appreciate Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq who has kept to his words by fulfilling all promises, especially the recently disbursed financial motivations to frontline healthcare workers in Kwara state who are actively involved in facing the COVID-19 challenge in the state,” Dr. Solagberu said in a statement.