PSN chides CMDs over payment of doctors’ skipping dues
• Urges EFCC, ICPC to probe finances of 55 FHIs Pharmacists under the umbrella of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has alleged that some Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) have been paying the skipping dues of doctors through internally generated revenues of institutions under them, a development which they have condemned, saying it amounts to illegality, as such funds were never allocated by the National Assembly. The association has therefore urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to audit the finances of all the 55 federal health institutions (FHIs) to fish out and sanction all liable CMDs. A statement on Monday, signed by Olumide Akintayo, President, PSN, which also condemned moves to pressure the Federal Government to factor payments accruing from the skipping of salary scale to doctors in the Federal Health Institutions in the 2016 budget called for the probe of t