Strike: JOHESU peddling falsehood to hoodwink public-NMA

The FCT chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has said the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) is peddling falsehood and twisting facts to hoodwink the innocent and unsuspecting public. The Chairman of NMA FCT Chapter, Dr.Chiedozie Jude Achonwa made this known on Tuesday during a press conference on the on-going JOHESU strike in Abuja. […]

The FCT chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has said the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) is peddling falsehood and twisting facts to hoodwink the innocent and unsuspecting public.

The Chairman of NMA FCT Chapter, Dr.Chiedozie Jude Achonwa made this known on Tuesday during a press conference on the on-going JOHESU strike in Abuja.

He described the news that the entire health institutions have been locked down by JOHESU’s strike as mere propaganda and urged the public to visit and access health care from hospitals.

"We would ordinarily have ignored JOHESU as it concerns her ongoing strike but we are at the moment constrained to respond and put the record straight to debunk JOHESU’s delibrate peddling of falsehood,twist of facts, misinformation and manufacture of non-existent figures

 

just to hoodwink and get the sympathy of the innocent and unsuspecting public who may tend to believe their propaganda if we keep quiet"

On the quest by JOHESU to earn equal pay with doctors, Achonwa described such demand as unrealistic and unacceptable.

He said the training of doctors who spent many strenuous years in the university was different from that of other health workers and therefore ought to be on a different salary scale.

 

"It must be emphasized that what JOHESU is asking for is not necessarily increment in salary per se, but equal pay as doctors.They want government to pay them exactly the same amount as paid to doctors.

"It should be expected therefore that NMA will never allow JOHESU to use subterfuge and backdoor approach to become doctors".

He, therefore, called on allied health professionals to be resonable in their demands, suspend their strike, return to work to join the doctors to continue the good work for the benefit of the masses.