The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) of the Jos University Teaching Hospital, JUTH, Friday staged a demonstration at the gate of the Teaching hospital, demanding the immediate implementation of the agreement it reached with the Federal government recently.
The Union which comprises non Academic staff Union (NASU), Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) , Senior Staff Association of University Teaching Hospitals , Research Institutes and Associated Institutions (SSAUTHRIAI ) Medical and Health Workers Union , and National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) turned out in their hundreds.
The Chairman of JOHESU, Comrade Mustapha Kabir, who spoke with journalists during the demonstration, said the Union has vowed to continue with the ongoing strike.
“After deliberation with the congress, the Unions were mandated to serve the management with the notice to resume the suspended strike.
He listed the demands of the health workers to including the provision of consumables like drugs, laboratory reagents, gloves, bed sheets for the patients.
They added that the MRI and CT scan machines must be fixed, promotion arrears must be paid. They equally lamented that cash collection in some units in the hospital were done without remittance into JUTH account.
During the demonstration, the Unions were seen displaying Placards which read: “Provide us with Consumables”, “the Health sector is dying”, “Promote our members,” among others.
When contacted the Chief Medical Director of the Jos University Teaching Hospital, Professor Edmond Banwat appealed to the striking workers to call off the strike and resume work.
Banwat said, as medical workers, they should consider that they are dealing with human lives and patients need their care.
He also said Doctors in the hospital were doing their best to ensure that patients are attended to.
The Chief Medical Director, however, blamed the poor power supply to the hospital, as the reason the CT scan and MRI machines were down.
“But power is now stable in the hospital and the machines are currently been repaired and soon it would be functional,” he explained.
On the issue of consumables, Banwat said the hospital had enough consumables that was been provided to patients.
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