Governor Yahaya Approves Special Salary Scale For Gombe Health Workers

Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State has approved federal-equivalent wage structures for each wellness workers successful the state.

The determination is expected to boost the workers‘ morale and fortify work transportation crossed the sector.
The politician announced this yesterday astatine the opening of the First Gombe Health Summit 2025, held astatine the Gombe International Conference Centre.

The First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, and the coordinating curate for Health and Social Security, Professor Ali Pate, were among the dignitaries astatine the summit.

Governor Yahaya said the authorities authorities would instrumentality the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) and Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) opening October 2025.

According to Yahaya, the caller argumentation volition outgo the authorities astir N250 cardinal monthly, translating to N3 cardinal annually, describing it arsenic a indispensable concern successful the payment of wellness professionals who signifier the backbone of the state’s ongoing wellness assemblage reforms.

“I americium pleased to denote the contiguous support for the afloat implementation of CONMESS and CONHESS wage structures for each wellness workers, effectual October 2025, making them astatine par with that of the national government.

“This important intervention, astatine a fiscal outgo of N250 cardinal monthly, oregon N3 cardinal annually, is simply a nonstop concern successful the payment of our wellness workers. In return, I telephone upon each wellness workers successful Gombe State to lucifer this committedness with renewed dedication, highest standards of productivity, and an unwavering absorption connected contributing to the wellness and well-being of our people,“ the politician stated.

He added that the determination aligns Gombe State with national wage standards for doctors, nurses, midwives, and different wellness professionals, a measurement analysts accidental could stem encephalon drain, amended unit retention, and pull much skilled unit to agrarian and underserved communities.

He urged wellness workers to reciprocate the motion with renewed commitment, professionalism, and productivity. He besides highlighted the state’s wider reforms, including revitalisation of 228 superior healthcare centres, upgrading wide hospitals, establishing the contributory wellness strategy (GoHealth), and creating GoPharma to supply affordable medicines.