The 12-day-old strike by the health workers’ unions under the Joint Health Sector Unions, or JOHESU, has been called off.
The JOHESU National Vice President, Mr. Obinna Ogbonna, verified this to reporters on Monday.
Ogbonna claimed that the strike had been put on hold as a result of the advancements achieved in the negotiations with President Bola Tinubu.
He claimed that soon after meeting with the president, the health workers organized a conference and resolved to end the strike, giving the administration a 21-day deadline.
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“We met with President Tinubu at the villa and he pleaded with the striking health workers to give him the benefit of the doubt.
“The president says that he will resolve the matters amicably to our own benefit and positive results,” Ogbonna said.
He claimed that after taking into account his request, the congress decided that we should set a deadline of 21 days to evaluate the state actors’ progress and dedication to resolving the problems.
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, and the Senior Staff Association of Universities’ Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes, and Associated Institutions all fall under the umbrella organization known as JOHESU.
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The unions’ demands include that the federal government immediately approve and implement the Technical Committee Report on CONHESS adjustment; that the affected health workers in federal health institutions immediately receive the COVID-19 hazard/inducement allowances that were omitted and shortchanged; that health workers in non-core hospital facilities be recognized in the payment of new hazard allowances; and that the payment and inculcation of peculiar allowances to health work be made.
Others include the immediate and unconditional implementation of the pharmacist consultant cadre, the unconditional payment of all outstanding salaries at the National Obstetric, Fistula Center, NOFIC, Azare, Bauchi State, Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Jos University Teaching Hospital, JUTH, and Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, as well as the quick implementation of the retirement age increase from 60 to 65 years and 70 years for consultants in the health professions.
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In a letter dated May 9, the leadership of JOHESU gave the Federal Government a 15-day deadline over what they claimed were the government’s inconsistencies in the current negotiations to change the Consolidated Health Salary Structure for health workers on their platforms.
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