At least 19 members of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) sustained injuries in an accident along the Benin-Auchi Road on Saturday.

The workers are said to be staff of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) chapter of the union.

According to Channels, 40 of the health workers were on their way to a function in Auchi when the accident occurred.

The injured victims were subsequently rushed to the Otibho Okhai Hospital in Irrua, Edo state, where they were being treated by doctors and consultants on duty.


Esteem Tagar, president of the association of resident doctors at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, who confirmed the incident, said no life was lost in the accident. The union has been on strike since April 17.

Part of the health workers’ demands include upward review of their salaries to be at same level with the doctors, a request both the federal government and the doctors kicked against.

Others are improved facilities, employment of additional health professionals, implementation of court judgments, upward review of retirement age from 60 to 65 years, and harmonisation of salaries of all healthcare workers in the country.


The National Industrial Court in Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the health workers to resume work within 24 hours but JOHESU asked its members to continue with the strike.

The union has “relaxed” its strike in Lagos, Kano, Yobe and Niger states, but called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sack Isaac Adewole, minister of health, for allegedly taking sides with doctors in the ongoing strike.

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Na wa o, if those doctors weren’t on strike, they would’ve been able to treat themselves

Bolowolowo:
Na wa o, if those doctors weren’t on strike, they would’ve been able to treat themselves

Damn good

Who should've treated them? carpenters?

now they have been transmitted, mctheew

greedy doctors

Tank God dey didn't die.
Mumu.doctors DT luv strike more dn even sex

hmmm, and I cant get a medical certificate to complete my job application cos of their strike

They should have treated themselves after all they claim to be at par with Medical Doctors

Those who survive this will definitely have a rethink about life.

nonsense

Plot twist!

I hope they don't suffer what others have suffered

dragnet:
Who should've treated them? carpenters?

No shoemaker..

Life lesson; Do unto others what you would like them to do for you. You people are on strike because of greed.

If the Doctors were to go on strike too, it would have been disastrous for the JOHESU members.

Good one doctors..
Repaying evil with good.

They went on strike abandoning people to die but here they are being treated and not abandoned to die.

They should have been left alone same way they have neglected others. Since this strike, i have suffered a loss because of these STUPID people. They should have been left to die.

JOHESU will be quite embarrassed by this incident. Their lies that hospitals cannot function without them has been exposed.

Irony of life...

martineverest:
greedy doctors

How ?

oride:
They should have been left alone same way they have neglected others. Since this strike, i have suffered a loss because of these STUPID people. They should have been left to die.

Have mercy on them.for they do not knoweth what they are doing

Eye service.

Have the doctors not been treating other patients?

And when doctors go on strike, don't JOHESU attend to other patients?

So why is this news?

Why is this news?

NEMESIS chapter1 vs 1: Every charitable or uncharitable attitude is a boomerang.

They shud have been left to die. So they can get a taste of thier own medicine before going to hell

GavelSlam:
So they like being treated abi?

Any little thing... strike .

Other patients that need attention but can't be attended to because ancillary medical staff are on strike are unimportant.

The doctors did a good thing and I hope these JOHESU peeps learnt a lesson through this.

They wont o.
They sees doctors as rival
They consist of gardeners, security men, lab technologist, and.nurses