A strike monitoring team from the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, has stormed the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Umuahia to chase out health workers that were not participating in the ongoing nationwide strike.
The JOHESU team, comprising the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, and Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals, NUAHP, said the strike was still on and must be observed until their demands for better welfare were met by the Federal government.
During the compliance drive, some workers who were found on duty were seen trying to hide, while still holding on to files.
Speaking during the compliance monitoring exercise, Abia State Chairman of NUAHP, Mr Chibueze Oparaocha, said that his union and MHWUN were making sure that there was full compliance to the strike in FMC Umuahia.
“We followed due process before embarking on this strike and if we don’t get justice we will continue to struggle,” Oparaocha said.
Justifying the reason for chasing out the disobedient health workers, the Abia State Chairman of MHWUN, Mr Solomon Offor, said that the union was demanding the implementation of the 12-year-old adjusted Consolidated Health Salary Structure, CONHESS.
Adding his voice, the Chairperson of MHWUN at FMC, Umuahia, Mrs Commy Okonkwo, expressed dismay that some workers were sabotaging the strike in the Federal Hospital but praised those who are obedient to the struggle.
“The compliance is quite encouraging and I am hopeful that the government will listen to our demand and do the needful,” she said.
DAILY POST gathered that the ongoing strike is having a negative effect on patients, with some of them relocated to private hospitals, prayer houses or villages.
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