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Nigerian health workers strike over coronavirus allowance

Published 15/09/2020, 09:05
Nigerian health workers strike over coronavirus allowance

ABUJA, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Nigerian health workers demanding
the payment of a hazard allowance for treating coronavirus
patients have gone on strike only a week after doctors in
Africa's most populous country staged a walk out.
The Joint Health Service Unions (JOHESU) - representing
medical staff such as nurses, midwives and radiologists - said
the strike, which began on Monday, would last for seven days.
Doctors across the country however will continue to work.
The trade union's demands include life insurance for its
members, full access to protective equipment and pay structure
adjustments. The JOHESU said it would launch an indefinite
strike if the demands are not met within the next week.
Health Minister Osagie Ehanire, in a statement issued late
on Monday as part of a briefing by the government's task force
on the new coronavirus, urged health workers to call off the
stoppage.
"Issues around allowances are multisectoral and have always
been solved with negotiations, no matter how long it took," he
said.
Strikes by health workers are common in Nigeria.
Last week the National Association of Resident Doctors
suspended a separate strike to allow the government time to meet
their demands over pay and working conditions.
The strike by resident doctors - medical school graduates
training as specialists who dominate hospital emergency wards -
was that union's second of the year. Nigeria has a total of 56,388 confirmed coronavirus
infections and 1,083 deaths.


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