Govt Urges Health Workers to End Strike

Health workers under the umbrella of Joint Health Staff Union, are currently on nation-wide strike to press home certain demands from the government.

The Minister of State for Health, Dr Khaliru Alhassan has expressed concern over the current strike action embarked upon by the health workers in the country, urging them  to suspend their action immediately in the interest of the nation.

Health workers under the umbrella of Joint Health Staff Union, JOHESU, are currently on nation-wide strike to press home certain demands from the government.

The minister who spoke at Ido-Ekiti, weekend, during the upgrading of Federal Medical Centre, Ido-Ekiti to a Federal Teaching Hospital and the signing of Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Government and Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti.

The  memorandum followed the building of a N2 billion Clinical Complex  by ABUAD owner , Chief Afe Babalola, in the hospital as part of the requirements by Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria and National Universities Commission, NUC, for the running of Medicine and Surgery.