Imo health workers threaten to embark on indefinite strike over welfare neglect

Imo State wellness workers, nether the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, and the Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations, are acceptable to unopen down the wellness assemblage with an indefinite onslaught owed to alleged negligence of their payment nether Hope Uzodinma’s administration.

The national hinted that respective negotiations betwixt the workers and the authorities authorities failed to output affirmative results.

The determination of the workers to unopen down the wellness assemblage was made nationalist successful a property connection jointly signed by its State Chairman, Comrade Uche Okafor, and others.

The national maintained that the alleged continuous negligence of workers’ payment compelled them to see an indefinite onslaught arsenic their past enactment to property location their demands.

According to the statement, the enactment of the wellness workers said they decided to unopen down the wellness assemblage aft a bid of efforts to get attraction and endorsement of their demands from the Governor, arsenic communicated to him done the Ministry of Health and the Office of the Head of Service.

They noted that the wage operation reflected connected the State Payroll portal, indicating designations specified arsenic HWSS, CSS, and HAPSS, is inconsistent with the approved CONHESS structure—a improvement they noted has resulted successful alleged stagnation and unjustifiable simplification successful the net of wellness workers, thereby undermining t...