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Nigerian health workers end strike despite no coronavirus hazard pay

Published 21/09/2020, 15:20
Nigerian health workers end strike despite no coronavirus hazard pay

LAGOS, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Nigerian health workers who went
on strike in mid-September for a hazard allowance for treating
coronavirus patients returned to work on Monday, their union
said, without their demands being met.
The Joint Health Service Unions (JOHESU), representing
nurses, midwives, radiologists and others, had called for life
insurance, full access to protective equipment and the hazard
allowance.
"The next line of action would be decided in due course by
the expanded National Executive Council of JOHESU," the union
said in a statement issued late on Sunday, titled "suspension of
seven days warning strike".
It did not say why it had called off the strike if its
demands had not been met.
Strikes by health workers are common in Nigeria.
Earlier this month, the National Association of Resident
Doctors suspended a strike to allow the government time to meet
its demands over pay and working conditions. It was the union's
second strike of the year. Nigeria has recorded a total of 57,242 confirmed coronavirus
infections and 11,098 related deaths.

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