Members of the Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Health Care Professionals have threatened to go on a nationwide strike from September 13 if the Federal government fails to address all their demands.
The National Chairman of the Joint Health Workers Union, JOHESU, Bio Josiah, who spoke with newsmen in Abuja today September 7, listed their demands to include the immediate payment of the shortfall in the COVID-19 allowances of non-clinical staff in the Federal Health institutions presently pegged at 10 per cent to the agreed 50 per cent of basic salaries paid to all clinical staff in the FHIs.
The union is also demanding that states and LGAs that have not domesticated the COVID-19 allowances for their clinical and non-clinical health workers to abide by the agreement without further delay to avoid the breakdown of industrial harmony in their health sector.
“We demand unconditional payment of all withheld salaries at Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, JUTH, LUTH and the complement of April and May 2018 salaries.
