The Federal Government will recover millions of naira wrongly paid to 588 medical doctors across the country.
Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, stated this when he carried out questions from State House correspondents in Abuja.
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Meanwhile,the names of the doctors were uncovered after a thorough examination of the 8000 names submitted by Chief Medical Directors of Federal Government health institutions for the training programme.
As reported by Daily Trust, the minister disclosed that a substantial amount of the money had been refunded by some of the affected doctors while efforts had been intensified to recover the remaining balance.
While,he maintained that the delay in making the refund by the affected doctors was holding back the Residency Fund payment by the government.
The Association of Resident Doctors, in each of the tertiary centres, worked with the CMDs to produce those names, but now that the names are being verified.
On the ongoing strike by Resident Doctors, Ngige expressed the readiness of the Federal Government to withdraw the case it instituted against them, if they would go back to their duty post.