Members of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) beget asked the Federal Executive to deal with the points raised by the union.
At a gathering with the government on Tuesday, JOHESU President, Biobelemonye Josiah, lamented that despite the persistence of the health workers, no longer one among their demands has been met by the government.
“We listed them (the points) and on various times, we presented these items all all over again and all all over again,” he acknowledged on Tuesday in Abuja at an emergency meeting of the government and JOHESU.
“Our final strike was once on September 13, 2020. Six days from now, this could be one yr and that exhibits that we are affected person and we thought that inner this length, no longer much less than the five points, even, if no longer the entire 16 (points raised), would had been handled.
“But as we keep in touch, no longer even one has been handled.”
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Basically primarily primarily based on Josiah, many of the worries raised by the health workers are points which had been mentioned all all over again and all all over again.
He described JOHESU as “the affected person canines of the health machine” and that the physique believes that occurring strike is a painful contrivance to resolve industrial disputes, fascinated with its develop on the greater inhabitants of Nigerians.
The union leader regretted that while they are making an strive as mighty as they are able to to handbook sure of occurring strike, they beget got been unlucky to be positively attended to by the government.
“Loads of the points beget lingered, some from 2014. Then primarily the most vexing ones; we beget 16 points that we entered into an agreement (about with the government) on September 30, 2017.
Josiah explained that, as a listening physique, in reaction to interventions including by the National Assembly, JOHESU provided no longer much less than five points that wants to be tackled.
“We hope that we’re going to be ready to entire the main points before the ultimatum we beget given,” he acknowledged, adding, “We are moreover pleading with the government to beget that sensitivity that we must always amassed no longer be led into temptation.”
‘We Not Owing’
Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, presided over the meeting convened to avert one other strike in the nation’s health sector.
In his remarks, he told the union to proceed to present working out with the government and gave an assurance that the five principal points raised would be regarded into.
Basically primarily primarily based on the minister, the claim of the non-charge of salaries by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) is fake.
He moreover demanded that those accountable for the unlawful recruitment of clinical doctors into the government team be made to face the final consequence of their actions.
“No person is owed month-to-month salaries; the clinical doctors verbalize that their members are owed month-to-month salaries.
“Those owed month-to-month salaries among the clinical doctors are those who are illegally recruited. Those those who even did unlawful recruitment wants to be punished severely,” he acknowledged.
