Just when the National body of the joint Health sector unions, JOHESU is calling for an emergency meeting on tuesday over planned strike, the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital Chapter has suspended its ongoing 7-day warning strike.
While the National body is unhappy over errors and ommissions in the payment of three months COVID-19 hazard allowances, the UITH chapter is cheerful for the supply of adequate personal protective equipment, PPEs, which was responsible for the 7 days down tool.
Information obtained from AIT Crawl News Bar indicates JOHESU National body is meeting in Abuja on August 25, 2020 with a bag full of issues, some of which the National Chairman and president of the medical and health workers union, Biobelemoye Josiah has struggled to explain in several fora
JOHESU Chairman UITH, Olutunde Oluwawumi told newsmen shortly after several hours of meeting with executive members at the University of Ilorin Teaching hospital that the health workers were forced to embark on the action also because of non-payment of promotion arrears smong others demands.
The UITH JOHESU insists that the warning strike is being suspended because some of their demands have now been met partially by the management of UITH.
Oluwawumi however implored the Chief Medical Director of UITH, Professor Abdullahi Yusuf to wtite his name in gold by keeping to all the promise he made to the workers.