BY Matthew Denis
The Joint Council of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) in collaboration with the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Kwara State council will today (Monday) commence an indefinite strike across the 16 Local Government Areas of the state.
This was contained in a statement jointly signed by the state Chairmen of NANNM, Comrade Joshua Adekanye and Comrade Muritala Olayinka Saheed and made available to this medium on Thursday.
The statement reads; “Rising from the Congress of coalition of health sector unions held at Nurses House, Ilorin on Thursday, the Congress has resolved to embark on an indefinite strike on Monday 14th January, 2019 in all the local government areas of Kwara State.
“All the state health facilities and hospitals including the Ministry of Environment and Agriculture should also join the strike as from Monday 21st January, 2019 to press home the demand for implementation of approved 10 percent consolidated health salary structure (CONHESS) for the workers at the councils.
“This is as a result of the state government implementation of the approved 10 percent CONHESS for state health workers since July 2018 and refused to implement same for health workers at the local government levels in the state,” it added.
The unions appealed to members anchoring health programmes like family planning, Immunization, HIV/AIDS, among others to suspend it during the industrial action.
The statement also called on the general public to exercise patients as the welfare of health workers is paramount to quality of service delivery to their patients in the hospitals.
