UNIOSUN hospital workers threaten strike over proposed privatisation plan

Workers astatine the Osun State University Teaching Hospital, UNIOSUNTH, person threatened to unopen down the installation from Monday over a projected Public-Private Partnership statement covering respective aesculapian and enactment services.

The menace followed a protestation staged by members of the Joint Action Committee of unions astatine the teaching infirmary successful Osogbo on Thursday.

The unions said they were opposed to the projected privatisation of services successful departments including the laboratory, Intensive Care Unit, radiology, kitchen, morgue and security.

They warned that nonaccomplishment by the infirmary absorption to code their concerns would trigger an indefinite onslaught aft the expiration of a 14-day ultimatum issued to the authorities.

According to the unions, the ultimatum volition expire astatine 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, leaving Monday as the projected commencement day for the concern action.

Speaking during the protest, Olumide Faniran, an elder of the unions and a subordinate of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, said the workers were resisting an effort to present the PPP without capable consultation.

“Actually, the agitation is implicit a Public-Private Partnership, PPP, which the enactment of the Teaching Hospital is embarking on.

“When you are undertaking thing of that nature, you carr...