By Bisola Adeyemo
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Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU and Assembly of Allied Health Professionals have suspended the strike embarked on since Nov. 3, 2020.
The council directed its members to resume woork today.
This was known in a resolution signed by Dr. Joe Osuji, the Commissioner for Health, and Sir. Onyii Wamah, the Head of Service, on behalf of the state government and state Chairman MHWUN, Comrade Okoro Ogbonnaya, and all the Chairmen and Secretaries of the Council.
“The Government of Abia State has shown commitment in the payment of salary arrears, having paid three months to Hospital Management Board staff and two months to the staff of Abia State University Teaching Hospital, and five months to staff of Abia State College of Health Sciences and Management Technology, in Dec. 2020, ” the statement read.
At the end of a meeting ofJOHESU, Assembly of Allied Health Professionals, and the Abia State Government, the council expressed appreciation to Governor Okezie Ikpeazu for approving and implementing the Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) to all healthcare workers, civil servants and Local Councils in the state.
The meeting indicated the approval of the sum of N4million by the state government as a running cost for all the Health Authority Secretaries in the seventeen LGAs as well as agreed to involve JOHESU leadership in the staff verification exercise at the Hospitals Management Board and the Abia State University Teaching Hospital billed to begin soon.
The meeting resolved that members of the unions would not be victimized because of the strike while noting that JOHESU would have to recommence the strike with a seven-day notice should the government fail to keep its part of the bargain.
