Members of the Joint Health Sector Union and Assembly of Healthcare Professionals have declared a seven-day warning strike, starting from Friday midnight, today.
JOHESU is made up of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, the Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals, the Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutions, and Associated Institutions, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions.
The strike comes after a fifteen-day notice of industrial action issued to the Federal Government on October 10, 2024.
Kabiru Minjibir, the national chairman of JOHESU, listed some of its demands while addressing journalists in Abuja.
This demands include the immediate implementation of the consolidated health salary structure, payment of a twenty-five percent review of its arrears from June to December 2023, upward review of retirement age for health workers, tax waiver on healthcare workers allowances, and the immediate payment of COVID-19 inducement hazard allowance among other demands.
The body has asked all its members across the country to adhere to the directive.
