Beginning Friday at midnight, members of the Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Health Care Professionals (JOHESU) have gone on strike for seven days.
The Federal Government was given a fifteen-day warning before taking this move, indicating long-standing complaints about several unsolved issues that impact their members across the country.
At a press event in Abuja, JOHESU national leader Kabiru Minjibir went into depth about the union’s demands.
Similar to the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure changes that were implemented on January 2, 2014, the union is advocating for substantial changes to the Consolidated Health Salary Structure.
They are also calling for the retirement age to be raised from 60 to 65 for health workers and to 70 for consultants, as well as the establishment of a consultant cadre for chemists in Federal Health Institutions.
Tax relief on healthcare workers’ allowances, the prompt payment of COVID-19 incentive hazard allowances that were overlooked for some healthcare workers, and the payment of arrears associated with the CONHESS evaluation are among the other requests.
Additionally, JOHESU is demanding that the Drug Revolving Fund Standard Operating Procedures be withdrawn and that the National Health Facility Regulatory Agency’s planned creation and operations be immediately suspended.
Minjibir underlined the importance of these requests, stressing their vital role in guaranteeing the well-being and productivity of healthcare professionals nationwide.
The goal of the strike, he said, is to pressure the administration to quickly resolve these persistent problems.
To emphasise the gravity of their complaints, JOHESU has instructed all of its members at the various federal health facilities to rigorously follow the strike directive.
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