JOHESU Suspends Planned Strike

The unions had earlier threatened to disrupt normal services in hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the country over the federal government’s inability to meet their demands.

The union on September 2 had given the federal government a 15-day ultimatum to address its demands.

Following the expiration of the ultimatum on September 17, the union issued another 15-day ultimatum to the federal government.

Ajorutu said the decision was reached at the end of an emergency meeting of the union’s expanded national executive council(NEC) meeting held on Monday, in Abuja.

He said the decision to put the planned strike on hold was taken in the interest of giving the federal government enough time to meet their demands.

“The leadership of JOHESU reasoned that it was necessary to give the Federal Government a conducive environment to present an update on developments with regards to the major demands of JOHESU,” the communique reads.

“This, especially in the area of adjustment of CONHESS as it was done with CONMESS while also showing evidence-based data of the circularization of the redress of all highlighted service delivery challenges peculiar to members of JOHESU.