* Gate of UCH, Ibadan
By Ibidapo Olowolayemo, Ibadan
Wednesday October 30, 2024
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Following the seven-day warning strike embarked on by Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU), patients at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan have appealed to government to negotiate with the health workers to end the strike.
The patients made the appeal while speaking with journalists at the hospital.
A couple of the patients, Mr. Matthew Ademola and Madam Aina Balogun, said they couldn’t get medical attention at the diagnostic centre, as medical laboratory workers were not on ground to attend to them.
It was observed that the entrance gate to some areas in the hospital were shut.
Speaking with journalists, Chairman JOHESU, UCH, Mr. Oladayo Olabampe, said the strike was only observed in federal health institutions.
Olabampe pointed out that their demands included the immediate upward review of CONHESS salary as it was done to CONMESS in 2014, tax waiver on allowance, upward review of retirement age of health workers to 65 years and 70 years for consultants, among others.
Olabampe, who is also the chairman of Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) in Oyo State, noted that their demands were over due and that if government failed to respond to their demands, the unions would embark on indefinite strike.
The warning strike commenced last Saturday.
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