Ondo Health Workers Reject Half Salary, Embark On Indefinite Strike

• The union comprises Medical Laboratory Scientists, Optometrists, Physiotherapists, Pharmacists, Health Information Managers/Officers, Dieticians, Radiographers
• According to the union, the balance of 50% of November salary, arrears of backlogs of salaries (December 2020 and January 2020), as well as the previous year’s outstanding salaries, should be paid

Members of Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP), Ondo State chapter, have indefinitely withdrawn their services from all state owned health care facilities, hospitals and health centres.

It can be recalled that Medical doctors have earlier embarked on strike over the payment of percentage salaries, while nurses had also embarked on three day warning strike.

The union, which comprises Medical Laboratory Scientists, Optometrists, Physiotherapists, Pharmacists, Health Information Managers/Officers, Dieticians, Radiographers, etc had earlier intimated the government on the hardship being faced by it’s members.

This is not unconnected with the inability of the Ondo State government to pay salaries regularly and the eventual payment of 50% as part payment of November salary.

EKO HOT BLOG gathered that the strike has crippled operations of many government health facilities.

The union, through a letter dated 3rd of March, 2021, stated that it resolved to withdraw its services after the expiration of the 15-day ultimatum earlier given

According to the union, the balance of 50% of November salary, arrears of backlogs of salaries (December 2020 and January 2020), as well as the previous year’s outstanding salaries, should be paid

“Payment of outstanding two (2) months Covid-19 special allowances as agreed in may 2020″ The union added.

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The Chairman of the Union, Prince Adedire Adeyinka explained that health workers were faced on daily basis with exposure to LASSA FEVER, COVID-19 pandemic etc. He added that without prompt payment of salaries, it has become so difficult for their members to fortify their immune system against the ravaging pandemic and other epidemic diseases.

Adedire vowed that members of the union would no longer accept percentage salaries being paid by the Ondo state government.

He said: “It has got to the extent that health workers could no longer transport themselves to their different postings where their services are rendered.”

The Chairman explained that unlike other government workers who were told to work from home over a period of time, members of his union were always on their duty post 24hrs on daily basis with call duties inclusives.

The Union therefore directed all its members to withdraw their services indefinitely, effective from Monday, March 8, 2020 after giving almost a month notice to the government.

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