In an effort to end the ongoing indefinite strike, the Federal Government and the striking Joint Health Sector Union will meet once more today (Thursday).
Dr. Obinna Ogbonna, the National Vice-Chairman of JOHESU, revealed this.
Last Thursday, the government and the unions had a meeting, but there was no resolution.
The union members went on an indefinite strike last Thursday to emphasise their demands.
The health workers are demanding the immediate approval and implementation of the Technical Committee report on Consolidated Health Salary Structure Adjustment by the Federal Government; the immediate payment of the omission and shortfall in the COVID-19 hazard/inducement allowances of affected health workers in federal health institutions; the recognition of support health workers in hospital facilities in the payment of the new hazard allowance; and the payment and inculcation of peculiar allowances to health workers under the aegis of JOHESU/AHPA.
The other demands include the immediate and unconditional implementation of the pharmacist consultant cadre, the unconditional payment of all unpaid salaries at the Federal Medical Centre in Owerri, the Jos University Teaching Hospital, and the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, as well as the members’ salaries for the months of April and May 2018 at the Federal Medical Centre in Azare.
“All our executive members will be there at the meeting and the Federal Ministry of Health will be there so that we will present the matter. The Ministry of Labour is acting as the conciliator.”
The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, the Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals, the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, the Senior Staff Association of Universities Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes, and Associated Institutions, as well as the Assembly of Healthcare Professionals are all under the umbrella organisation known as JOHESU.
Hospital services at all of the nation’s Federal Government institutions have been hampered by the health workers’ nationwide strike.
