Call for sack of health minister, walk out of negotiations

Paul Obi in Abuja

The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) thursday called on health workers in Lagos, Kano and Yobe States to relax the ongoing indefinite strike in their domain following the cooperation of the governors from the above states.

The move to relax the strike in Lagos, Kano and Yobe States was as a fallout of the positive responses from the state governments in addressing several demands made by JOHESU.

Speaking with journalists last night, JOHESU Chairman, Biobelemoye Josiah, explained: “It is paramount we seize this discourse to specially convey deep appreciation to state governments which have gone ahead to meet the various clamours and terms of settlement in agreements with government. This include Yobe and Lagos State which have now adjusted the CONHESS scale as demanded.

“We specially commend the Lagos State Government for approving the consultancy cadre for pharmacists in its employment. Just like the Niger State Government did with pharmacists since 2012.

“The JOHESU also expresses gratitude to the Kano State Government for ensuring good welfare package for its healthcare workforce in addition to the intervention of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to ameliorate the on-going strike. We urge our members in Lagos, Yobe and Kano State to tactically relax the strike to accommodate emergency services in those states as a measure of goodwill.

“JOHESU wishes to declare once again that the crux of our clamour has always been restoration of the relativity in the CONHESS and CONMESS scale which was deliberately distorted with active government collaboration in 2014. We remain steadfast that in alignment with democratic norms and the rule of law, this desire remains very legitimate.”

They also took a swipe at the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, demanding that the federal government terminate his appointment as a minister.

They stated that “the Federal Ministry of Health as presently led by Prof. Isaac Adewole has constituted itself as a major hindrance to fruitful deliberation as he has never disguised his intention to symbolise the propaganda machine of the NMA through his posturing at all our meetings, which necessitated JOHESU to take a position that the negotiations were structured to fail ab-initio.

“Prof. Adewole is on record to have insisted that the wage structure in the health sector must reckon with what was obtainable in the 1991 late Prof. Olukoye Ransome – Kuti’s dual salary system (MSS and HSS) which marked the beginning of persistent acrimony until it was corrected through the Harmonised Tertiary.

“The duo of the Ministers of Labour and Health who are both members of the NMA have taken a position that parity must entail a basic salary differential in the emolument of health professionals and their doctor colleagues.

“On May 15, 2018, JOHESU came up with a comprehensive presentation to graphically showcase the realities of the various salary scales in the health sector from 1977 till date.

“Even when the reality on ground shows that a fresh doctor presently enters the public service on CONMESS 3 which is the equivalent of GL 12 with a take home monthly package ofN313,000,00 per month, the closest in line who are health professionals enter public service on CONHESS 9 which is the equivalent of GL 10 with a package of N161,670.00 with a proposal to have an adjustment that takes him to a total emolument ofN190,000.00, the two ministers who are members of NMA have taken positions that these health professionals seek parity with doctors. In mathematical terms this is a significant 61 per cent differential.”

Josiah who was accompanied by JOHESU Secretary, Ekpebor Florence, stressed that should President Muhaamadu Buhari fail to remove Prof. Adewole from office, the minister, they argued would remained “a major threat to public health especially at a time that the dreaded Ebola disease is currently rampaging in some African countries.

“The federal government must energise the deadlocked negotiations between the JOHESU and Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment with genuine conciliators who have national interest.

Specifically, a befitting budget to offset the already compromised three options presented by JOHESU to the federal government on May 16, 2018, must be made available through interventions facilitated by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF),” they maintained.

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/05/health-workers-relax-strike-in-lagos.html

Nice

Relax strike......

This country sef.

Make person just dey look!

Buhari is working

Mtchew....I just tire

Tired of this country... Nothing, not a single thing is working.

Now, they will say Buhari is working... We can't wait to be Atikulated... Likes for Atiku 2019

Ordinary Nurses? What do they know?

Obatala concocted herbs and shrubs (ewe ati egbo)... let's make the most of it.

God bless the Doctors!

Buhari has an ear problem so he will not listen, a comprehension problem so will not even understand.
So I implore you all, go and get your PVC ready to send
Baba, the incompetent, Buhari to his hometown. If you are
ready to do so, hit the like bottom but if you want the man
to remain then hit share.

What I heard is Yanny

SELFISHNESS
WILL
MAKE
NASU
WANTS
PARITY
WITH
UNIVERSITY LECTURERS
EVEN
NASU
DONT
MIND
BEING
VC

SAME
JOHESU
WHICH
COMPRISES
NURSES,PHARMACISTS LAB SCIENTISTS, CLEANERS, GATEMEN, MESSENGERS,
ALL
WANT
TO
BE
AT
PARITY
WITH
DOCTORS
TO
BE
CMD
AND
COLLECT
SAME
SALARIES.

PPP
IS
THE
WAY
OUT

JUST
AS
PATIENTS
BUY
DRUGS
FROM
PHARMACY OUTSIDE THE HOSPITAL
THEY SHOULD ALSO DO INVESTIGATION OUTSIDE
IN SUCH A WAY PHARMACISTS AND LAB SCIENTISTS
CAN GO ELSE WHERE.
WHY
WOULD
THEY
HOLD
PEOPLE
TO
RANSOM
BECAUSE
OF
SELFISH
DESIRES.


IN
PRIVATE
HOSPITALS
ARE
THEY
THE
HEAD
A
NURSE, PHARMACISTS, LABMAN
CANT
DARE
REVOLT
IN
THAT
ESTABLISHMENT
BUT
IN
CIVIL
SERVICE
THEY
WANT
PARITY

kaycyor:
Now, they will say Buhari is working... We can't wait to be Atikulated... Likes for Atiku 2019

Leave that talk. There is no much difference between Atiku and the serial incompetent Buhari, both want or wanted to become President for personal goals or ambition, not for what they have got to offer. Let us be looking for men and women who have been truly tested and fall with an age bracket that is below 60 or 65. But championing the candidacy of anyone above 70 by a youth is suicidal and tantamount to being lazy, in Buhari's voice

This health workers sef!

“Even when the reality on ground shows that a fresh doctor presently enters the public service on CONMESS 3 which is the equivalent of GL 12 with a take home monthly package ofN313,000,00 per month, the closest in line who are health professionals enter public service on CONHESS 9 which is the equivalent of GL 10 with a package of N161,670.00 with a proposal to have an adjustment that takes him to a total emolument ofN190,000.00, the two ministers who are members of NMA have taken positions that these health professionals seek parity with doctors. In mathematical terms this is a significant 61 per cent differential.”

JOHESU have become so paranoid in their demands that they have now resort to lying.It's a pity.

whatever... lives shouldn't be taken for granted. many lives have been lost due to strike. Govts should adjust their stands pls.

Even when the reality on ground shows that a fresh doctor presently enters the public service on CONMESS 3 which is the equivalent of GL 12 with a take home monthly package ofN313,000,00 per month, the closest in line who are health professionals enter public service on CONHESS 9 which is the equivalent of GL 10 with a package of N161,670.00 with a proposal to have an adjustment that takes him to a total emolument ofN190,000.00

Blatant lie.
No fresh Doctor takes home 300k plus

kaycyor:
Now, they will say Buhari is working... We can't wait to be Atikulated... Likes for Atiku 2019

Na only Abikki dey this country?
Who Abokki don help?

Innocent citizens are the one paying the price of our government incompetence... My neighbor's colleague was admitted during labour but she died before the baby could come out, you know why? Doctors/Midwives weren't available to attend to her cos they were on strike, damn! I'm visibly disappointed in this country.

Hmmm!!! Another strike? Where are we heading for in this country? Click on the first link on my signature if you want to start export business.

Greedy ppl

H

That's what happens when hunger sets in

YorubaAssasin:
Ordinary Nurses? What do they know?

Obatala concocted herbs and shrubs (ewe ati egbo)... let's make the most of it.

God bless the Doctors!

You call them ordinary but a graduate doctor can't perform simple stitch. He will be shacking like shake spear

kaycyor:
Now, they will say Buhari is working... We can't wait to be Atikulated... Likes for Atiku 2019

Them use northerners swear for u?

Naija..!

asuustrike2009:

You call them ordinary but a graduate doctor can't perform simple stitch. He will be shacking like shake spear

An Engineer has the technical know-how, the artisans, laborers and masons do the physical aspect.

Same applies to Doctors and Nurses!

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YorubaAssasin:


An Engineer has the technical know-how, the artisans, laborers and masons do the physical aspect.

Same applies to Doctors and Nurses!

Am not disputing that. What am saying is that many graduate doctors can perform well without the assistant of the so called common nurse