Kwara health workers begin indefinite strike

The Joint Council of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) and the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) Kwara state council will on Monday begin an indefinite strike across all the 16 local government areas in the state. This was contained in a statement jointly signed by the state Chairmen of […]

The Joint Council of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) and the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) Kwara state council will on Monday begin an indefinite strike across all the 16 local government areas in the state.

This was contained in a statement jointly signed by the state Chairmen of NANNM, Joshua Adekanye and Muritala Olayinka Saheed and made available to our correspondent in Ilorin at the weekend.

According to the statement, “All the state health facilities/hospitals including the ministry of environment and agriculture should also join the strike as from Monday 21st January 2019 to press home the implementation of approved 10 percent consolidated health salary structure for the workers at the councils.

“This 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.”

The statement also appealed to members anchoring health programmes like family planning, Immunization,  HIV/AIDS, among others to suspend it during the industrial action.