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The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) says it will commence an
indefinite strike by 12 midnight today (February 17) if the Federal
Government failed to meet members’ demands.
The National President of the Medical and Health Workers Union who
also doubled as JOHESU National Chairman, Mr Biobebelemoye Josiah,
disclosed this in an interview with NAN on Wednesday in Abuja.
Josiah explained that members are demanding for improved working
conditions, including the implementation of skipping of Grade Level 10.
According to him, JOHESU is asking for adjustment of the 2009 CONHESS
salary table and allowances as was done for the Nigerian Medical
Association (NMA) in January 2014.
He described government insensitivity to the demands as “provocative,
insulting and unjust in the worst dimension in a democratic
dispensation”.
Josiah lamented that members of the union were being subjected to
discrimination and industrial marginalisation in the health sector in
favour of NMA members.
On the issue of skipping of Grade level 10, he noted that rather than
paying them the money government went ahead to pay medical doctors
which he claimed were not entitle to such allowance by law.