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BY Jimoh Babatunde &\u00a0 Daniel Eteghe
Lagos State Governor,\u00a0 Babatunde Fashola,\u00a0 Thurday, said that with competing demands from other sectors the state cannot afford to pay the striking doctors what they are asking for.<\/p>\n

The Medical Guild, the umbrella body of doctors working in the state\u2019s hospitals, went on strike on February 5 over the refusal of state government to implement the Consolidated Medical Salary Scale.<\/p>\n

Speaking with airport correspondents on his return from the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu at the Murtala Muhammed Airport Lagos, Fashola said\u00a0 there are\u00a0 several areas that needed to be cartered for to ensure a balance in the sector.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt is not a choice that we do not want to pay. It is the realities that we cannot afford to pay the full sum that they are asking for. After salaries we have to buy drugs; after drugs we have to power medical equipment that keep patients alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter all of that we have to pay security, build roads, and build more schools. We have to provide supply. They are all involved in the process as well and not everybody can really have everything that he wants.\u201c<\/p>\n

Governor Fashola, while appealing to the striking doctors to have a rethink, said\u00a0 it is not a war of who is superior, but that \u201cthis is\u00a0 a war of rationality and reason. And we think that the point has been made.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that, \u201cwe have made a compromise, we have increased salaries. Once again, I appeal to them to see themselves as part of the solutions rather than being\u00a0 the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

It will be recalled that Former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday advised his successor, Governor Babatunde Fashola, to sack striking medical doctors.<\/p>\n

Tinubu\u00a0 had said that it would be foolhardy for the state government to yield to the demands of the doctors, noting that instead, it should employ new doctors.<\/p>\n

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