Osun govt urges health unions to shelve planned strike over UNIOSUNTH PPP

The Osun State Government has urged wellness assemblage unions astatine the UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, UNIOSUNTH, Osogbo, to shelve immoderate planned concern enactment implicit the projected Public-Private Partnership statement for laboratory services.

The authorities made the entreaty to the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, and the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), assuring the unions that the projected statement was intended to amended healthcare transportation astatine the hospital.

The Special Adviser to the Governor connected Public Health, Dr Akindele Adekunle, successful a connection connected Saturday said the projected PPP was not a privatisation programme and would not pb to the displacement of existing workers.

Adekunle said nary idiosyncratic would suffer their job, presumption oregon employment presumption arsenic a effect of the projected arrangement, adding that the inaugural was expected to amended entree to modern equipment, reagents and different consumables.

He said the concern would besides make opportunities for nonrecreational improvement and grooming portion improving the prime and ratio of services provided by the teaching hospital.

“The information that the absorption is convening meetings with the unions, ...