The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) has expressed appreciations to Senate President, Bukola Saraki, for his prompt intervention during the six weeks nationwide strike. Chairman of the union, Josiah Biobelemoye, said in a communiqué issued at the end of the National Executive Council meeting in Abuja that the suspension of the strike was sequel to Saraki’s and sympathy for Read More
National Chairman of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), Mr. Biobelemoye Josiah, has said that the Union called off its six weeks old nationwide strike because of its empathy for the suffering Nigerians. He stated this yesterday in a communiqué issued by the union at the end of its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting. The union resolved that court Read More
NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba speaks on the lingering crisis in the health sector, and concludes that a neutral body will be required to end the faceoff between the federal government and the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU). MOSES JOHN brings the details. Health workers strike First, this situation is getting out of hand because it has taken longer than Read More
There are strong indications that the over six-week old industrial action by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) may soon come to an end, due to an intervention by the President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki. Chairman of JOHESU, Comrade Josiah Biobelemoye, told journalists in Abuja on Monday that the workers were optimistic after an intervention meeting with the Read More
At the best of times, Nigeria’s healthcare delivery system is decrepit. The hospitals are far-flung, under-staffed and poorly equipped. In some rural communities the nearest hospital is 40 kilometres away. Nigeria is not investing in its human resources. Bill Gates, the world’s richest man and co-founder of the Bill/ Melinda Gates Foundation which has fl ushed billions of dollars down Read More
The Chairman of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and National President of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN), Comrade Joy Josiah Biobelemoye, speaks on the crisis in the health sector, the on-going nationwide strike and why the crisis cannot be resolved except President Muhammadu Buhari personally intervenes. MOSES JOHN reports. Court injunction against JOHESU I don’t Read More
Bauchi state health workers have joined the ongoing strike as directed by the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), grounding activities at the state hospitals and leaving patients stranded. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who visited General Hospital in Bayara town and the Specialists’ Hospital, Bauchi Metropolis on Monday, reports that health workers had deserted the hospitals. State Chairman Read More
The ongoing Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) strike would not hinder the screening of travellers coming into the country, Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has said. The minister, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja, said health workers at the nation’s ports were not part of the JOHESU’s strike, adding that government had a mechanism of screening travellers Read More
Normal services have been stopped in public health workers facilities in Kano as healthcare workers in the state joined the JOHESU nationwide strike in solidarity. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that activities at the Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital and Abdullahi Wase Hospital in Kano have been paralysed as a result of the JOHESU. NAN checks around the two Read More
Ngozi Ezeokeke slowly wheeled her aged mother through the corridors of the Federal Medical Centre, Jabi, on Saturday, and the patient’s pains were clear on her face. She was drooling, her neck dropped to the shoulders. “Her condition has worsened because nurses are not around to give her regular therapy,” a visibly aggrieved Ms Ezeokeke said. Her mother had a Read More
The management of University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, have disclosed that an unidentified man deliberately jumped down from the sixth floor of the hospital. The Public Relations Officer of the hospital, Deji Bobade, who confirmed the incident to newsmen yesterday in Ibadan, said the man went to the floor where the museum was under lock and jumped down in an Read More
The federal government and the striking Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) will reconvene today in a bid to find a resolution to the strike. This was indicated in a statement by the Ministry of Health yesterday in reaction to an advert sponsored by JOHESU in the Daily Trust Newspaper of Saturday April 28. The union in the advert accused the Read More
Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, yesterday said the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) was arm-twisting the federal government to implement a nonexisting agreement. Fielding questions from State House correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal Executive Council (EFC) meeting in Abuja, the minister said JOHESU never had any tangible agreement with the government other than “minutes of meeting” Read More
The federal government has stated that it had set up a committee to review the ‘technical and fi nancial’ related aspects of the demands by the striking Joint Health Sector Unions. According to the government, this was part of the decisions reached at a meeting of top officials held on Sunday night aimed at finding ways of ending the ongoing Read More
There was partial observance in public hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of the industrial action by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU). JOHESU, the association of other health workers apart from medical doctors and dentists, on Tuesday midnight commenced an indefinite strike over failure by the federal government to meet up with the agreement it had with the Read More
Health workers under the auspices of Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has directed their members nationwide to shun the federal government threat to apply ‘No work, No pay’ policy. National Chairman of JOHESU, Comrade Biobelemoye Josiah, who address journalists in Abuja, described the circular as bias, injustice and provocative antics of the Federal Ministry of Health. “We call on Read More
In Nigeria, several challenges have been reported within the health sector, and with health workers announcing indefinite strike there are fears that activities in hospitals will paralyse JOHESU The Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, has announced an indefinite strike that, it says, will paralyse activities in all health institutions across the country. “All federal government health institutions in Nigeria including Read More
Members of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU), who embarked on a nationwide indefinite strike yesterday, have vowed not back down until their demands are met. The General Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP), Obisesan Oluwatuyi, who disclosed this in an interview yesterday in Abuja, said “the soldiers have been let loose, no retreat, no surrender Read More
Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) yesterday described the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) as “an illegal body” that should not be accorded any recognition by Nigerians. The body said the threat by JOHESU to commence indefinite strike by midnight, on Wednesday (today), was uncalled for because their demands were envy-driven. The health workers, had, on Monday, issued strike threat, after what Read More
Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has directed its members in all federal health institutions nationwide to begun indefinite strike from today (midnight) following the federal government’s failure to implement agreements it signed with the unions. The five health sector unions that make up JOHESU are Medical and Health Workers Unions of Nigeria (MHWUN), National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives Read More
Enugu The strike embarked upon by workers of the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu has crippled activities at the facility, leaving patients stranded. It was gathered that the entire hospital was deserted as workers have complied to the strike declared by the Joint Health Sector Union(JOHESU). Our correspondent who observed the strike noticed that only few senior medical officials and security Read More
<h4> By Moses John Abuja </h4> Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has insisted that the union would not soft pedal on its stance on the ongoing strike until the federal government issues a positive circular addressing their demands. Th e union leadership also said the circular should be presented to the various NECs today, to ratify the decision on Read More
The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has said that they suspended their two weeks old strike conditionally in honor of patients in public hospitals and Nigerians in general. The unions leadership also said Federal Government is expected to issue a circular on their agreements with the unions to be presented to the various NEC to ratify the decision on the Read More
By Ajuma Edwina Ogiri Abuja — Pregnant women have urged the federal government to intervene in the ongoing health workers strike, saying they are the worst hit by the industrial action. Health Workers under the umbrella of Joint Health Sector Unions(JOHESU) had commenced strike on September 21, 2017, citing lack of commitment on the side of the Federal Government to Read More
Th e current trend of events in the health sector and its attendant consequences on patients has made it necessary that I should, before disaster strike raise alarm like a chick abandoned by the mother hen, as danger looms around the corner. Strike actions have become a recurrent decimal, and probably the only way to attract the attention of government Read More
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