COVID-19: Nigerian govt begins payment of upgraded hazard allowances to health workers

The Federal Government said on Monday it had commenced the payment of upgraded hazard allowances to frontline health workers fighting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.

The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, stated this at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja.

Mamora said the new incentives including insurance scheme was a fall-out of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the federal government and representatives of the unions under the health sector.

According to him, the upgraded allowance include the Special COVlD-19 Hazard and lnducement Allowance of 50 percent of the consolidated basic salary.

The minister said: “This is to be paid to all health workers in all the Federal Government Teaching Hospitals and Federal Medical Centres, the designated COVlD-19 Centres and the Primary Healthcare Centres to last for the first three months in the first instance.”

The minister said that 40 percent of Consolidated Basic Salary would be paid as Special COVlD-19 Hazard and Inducement Allowance to healthcare workers at Special Non-Public Hospitals and Clinics in the Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies for the same three months period.

He explained that 20 percent of the Consolidated Basic Salary would be paid as Special Risk Allowance additionally on the Special COVID-19 Hazard and Inducement Allowance to all health workers directly managing COVlD-19 at the Infectious Diseases Hospitals, lsolation and Treatment Centres across the country.

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Mamora noted that another 10 percent of Consolidated Basic Salary would be paid to non-core medical professionals working in the health sector and operating at aforementioned hospitals or clinics as Special Allowance for the COVID-19 for the period of three months in the first instance.

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