JUST a couple of months after the Nigerian Medical
Association, NMA, arm of the public sector health
workers ended its protracted strike, the National
Union of Allied Health Professionals, NUAHP, and the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, again, withdrew their services. You have a right to wonder how often they are at work in a year. The fresh strike followed even after the Federal Government approved their demand to be allowed to become consultants, just as their peers, the medical doctors.

Felix Faniran, President of NUAHP, said other
demands including salary increment and upward
adjustment of retiring age for his members were not addressed. Patients in public hospitals are left to feel the pinch of the incessant downing of tools by a sector that has become notorious for abusing strikes as if it is at war with members of the public,
especially the poor who patronise government
hospitals.

The latest strike is coming in the last months of the
year, when increase in travels exert high demand for emergency medical services. It also coincides with the intensification of the war against insur-gency in the North East, where our gallant soldiers and thousands of internally displaced persons require urgent medical and emergency attention.

It is very unfortunate that health workers, in the
unbridled peer rivalry between medical doctors and
other professionals in the industry, have abandoned
their social responsibility and the core ethics of their professional calling, which place primary emphasis on saving lives and giving succour to the afflicted.

When the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, challenged the
nation, its defeat which received universal acclaim,
was without any input from the public sector medical doctors because they were also on strike in their perennial struggling to assert their superiority over health workers who were not doctors.The
government does not help matters much. Issues that appear pretty straightforward are allowed to fester for years.

What does it take for government to implement the
salary increase which is already being paid to
doctors? Why delay it as if baiting non-doctors strike first? What accounts for the delay in implementing the 33-year-old White Paper which recommen-ded that the condition of service in the universities should also apply to the uni-versity teaching hospitals?

The raise in the retirement age from 65 to 70 years,
one of the demands of NUAHP and JOHESU, was
made only for doc-tors.We again call on governments and all the arms of the health workers union to adopt the best practices in defining relations among peers, such that they would promote stability in the industry. We call for an end to these painful, recurring strikes that deal devastating blows on ordinary Nigerians.



www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/health-workers-strike/

msmon:
JUST a couple of months after the Nigerian Medical
Association, NMA, arm of the public sector health
workers ended its protracted strike, the National
Union of Allied Health Professionals, NUAHP, and the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, again, withdrew their services. You have a right to wonder how often they are at work in a year. The fresh strike followed even after the Federal Government approved their demand to be allowed to become consultants, just as their peers, the medical doctors.

Felix Faniran, President of NUAHP, said other
demands including salary increment and upward
adjustment of retiring age for his members were not addressed. Patients in public hospitals are left to feel the pinch of the incessant downing of tools by a sector that has become notorious for abusing strikes as if it is at war with members of the public,
especially the poor who patronise government
hospitals.

The latest strike is coming in the last months of the
year, when increase in travels exert high demand for emergency medical services. It also coincides with the intensification of the war against insur-gency in the North East, where our gallant soldiers and thousands of internally displaced persons require urgent medical and emergency attention.

It is very unfortunate that health workers, in the
unbridled peer rivalry between medical doctors and
other professionals in the industry, have abandoned
their social responsibility and the core ethics of their professional calling, which place primary emphasis on saving lives and giving succour to the afflicted.

When the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, challenged the
nation, its defeat which received universal acclaim,
was without any input from the public sector medical doctors because they were also on strike in their perennial struggling to assert their superiority over health workers who were not doctors.The
government does not help matters much. Issues that appear pretty straightforward are allowed to fester for years.

What does it take for government to implement the
salary increase which is already being paid to
doctors? Why delay it as if baiting non-doctors strike first? What accounts for the delay in implementing the 33-year-old White Paper which recommen-ded that the condition of service in the universities should also apply to the uni-versity teaching hospitals?

The raise in the retirement age from 65 to 70 years,
one of the demands of NUAHP and JOHESU, was
made only for doc-tors.We again call on governments and all the arms of the health workers union to adopt the best practices in defining relations among peers, such that they would promote stability in the industry. We call for an end to these painful, recurring strikes that deal devastating blows on ordinary Nigerians.



www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/health-workers-strike/

So it was you who battled Ebola with your bare hands?
Mtcheeew!

Time to return to my native doctors - i nevaer heard of them going for strike,
......that will give person rest from all these supporters of APC set of health workers

The rate at which this people go on strike tells that they do not value the lives they swore to preserve when they swore the hypocritical oath. In as much as I know the government isn't good in honoring its promises, I believe they can resolve whatever their grievances are without the strike.

To call a spade a spade, what does it take the govt to fulfil the demands of this workers? Should we assume this is a plan to reduce the population of the nation?

I mean, it's really alarming that the govt can't satisfy the health workers, and the other public/civil servant, if the wife of the governor and wife of the speaker of house of assembly can be on govt payroll, then the public and civil servant deserves better treatment.

Why do other health workers always want to compare to doctors?the question here is the value of the particular discipline as regards to the health sector.doctors bring much more value to the hospital so should be duly compensated for the value they bring.injustice is when you treat equals as unequals and unequals as equals.nobody in the health sector is the doctors equal!we do not need injustice in the health sector.

As usual the govt is waiting till next month. Dec 5 I hear. When Johesu members fail to recieve alerts in their respective bank accounts then the tempo of discussions will change. Even doctors as well paid as we imagine they are could not hold out for more than 7weeks. Lets see what becomes of cleaners, records officers and actually everybody who is dependent on monthly salaries. And we know the govt is in no hurry. And it usually has public support when it comes to dealing with health workers.

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Sack everybody in that sector and pay them off; then privatise the hospitals!
* please note----- no sane doctor wants to work till 70 years , not even 65 years . I think it must be the Johesu people whose works are possibly less demanding , who want to work till 70 years! Imagine a 69 year old nurse with tremors giving your child injection !!!