Health workers across Nigeria will today begin indefinite strike, few weeks after the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) called of its own strike.
The Union which is under the auspices of Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals
(NUAHP), comprising of pharmacists, physiotherapists, medical laboratory scientists, dieticians, radiographers/imaging scientists, dental technologists, occupational therapists, health information officers and dental therapists. The members were under the instruction of the national leadership to embark on strike from today.
This was made known to journalists at a press briefing held at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, where the National President of the union, Felix Faniran, said NUAHP did not have any option other than to embark on the strike.
He said it had to do with the preferential treatment for members of NMA against members of NUAHP by the Federal Government, recalling that the agitation of the concerned allied healthcare professionals border on a 12-point demand.
According to him, the demands included appointment of Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) and advertisements for the posts of CMD and medical directors of tertiary hospitals in Nigeria purportedly skewed in favour of medical practitioners and need for commencement of residency training programme for other health professionals as recommended by Abdullahi Bello Committee in 2011.
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