Striking health workers adviced to halt the strike and return to work.More than patients dead
THE Acting Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Chris Bode has urged striking health workers under the umbrella of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) to return to work.
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Appealing to the striking workers yesterday, Bode said the prolonged strike has worsened the cases of patients.
The paediatric surgeon said striking workers should not prevent workers on duty from doing their job, adding that this negate the rules of engagement.
“The rule says that a striking worker should stay at home; cannot travel, no work no pay,” he said.
He said health care was a team work, which needed unbroken harmony for successful operation.
The strike, Bode said, has affected training and services in the hospital, especially doctors’ residency, nursing programme and pharmacy students, and others.
Bode said LUTH was operating skeletal services in the out-patient clinics, accident and emergency unit, intensive care unit and Engineering Unit.
Besides, patients who could not be discharged have remained on treatment in the wards.
He urged striking workers to embrace dialogue, adding that government policies take time, “because the country is in a democratic setting”.
The acting CMD said every group in the sector was trying to become independent of one another, adding that it was meaningless.
“There should be a legal framework to refrain medical workers from embarking on strike. This would curb incessant strikes by all the groups in the sector,” he said.
JOHESU members yesterday protested in the hospital.
Its Lagos State chairman, Comrade Stephen Ibe, alleged that the hospital was trying to employ some casual workers to take over the jobs of striking health workers.
He said the union would resist it as it was against the labour law.
Ibe urged the Federal Government to release the circular prepared to ensure proper emolument for workers.
Firstclassnewsline.net
THE Acting Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Chris Bode has urged striking health workers under the umbrella of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) to return to work.
Firstclassnewsline.net
Appealing to the striking workers yesterday, Bode said the prolonged strike has worsened the cases of patients.
The paediatric surgeon said striking workers should not prevent workers on duty from doing their job, adding that this negate the rules of engagement.
“The rule says that a striking worker should stay at home; cannot travel, no work no pay,” he said.
He said health care was a team work, which needed unbroken harmony for successful operation.
The strike, Bode said, has affected training and services in the hospital, especially doctors’ residency, nursing programme and pharmacy students, and others.
Bode said LUTH was operating skeletal services in the out-patient clinics, accident and emergency unit, intensive care unit and Engineering Unit.
Besides, patients who could not be discharged have remained on treatment in the wards.
He urged striking workers to embrace dialogue, adding that government policies take time, “because the country is in a democratic setting”.
The acting CMD said every group in the sector was trying to become independent of one another, adding that it was meaningless.
“There should be a legal framework to refrain medical workers from embarking on strike. This would curb incessant strikes by all the groups in the sector,” he said.
JOHESU members yesterday protested in the hospital.
Its Lagos State chairman, Comrade Stephen Ibe, alleged that the hospital was trying to employ some casual workers to take over the jobs of striking health workers.
He said the union would resist it as it was against the labour law.
Ibe urged the Federal Government to release the circular prepared to ensure proper emolument for workers.
Firstclassnewsline.net
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