Doctors in Kaduna State have called on Governor Nasir El-Rufai to urgently correct the perpetual shortfall in their salaries.

Addressing newsmen in Kaduna Monday ahead of this year health week on the theme ‘Road map to universal health coverage: the journey so far’, the state chairman and secretary of NMA, Dr. Shehu Abdulrahman said doctors in the state were being paid lower than their federal counterparts.

He said the situation has continuously favored internal brain drain to federal institutions as well as neighboring states.

“Recently, there was Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the state government where it pledged to correct the salary anomaly by January 2018 but seven months into the year, the situation is still the same,” he explained.

He appealed to the state government to fulfill its part of the agreements reached in the MOU.

As part of activities slated for the health week, the association will on Tuesday begin medical screening and treatment on diabetes and hypertension for corp marshals of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).