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Demands To Be Paid The Same Salary With Doctors By JOHESU Is Impracticable – Adewole

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Demands To Be Paid The Same Salary With Doctors By JOHESU Is Impracticable - Adewole

Minister Of Health, Adewole Isaac

Minister of health, Isaac Adewole, says officials of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) demand to be on the same salary scale with doctors is neither practicable nor acceptable.

Adewole said the cuurent administeration has offered to adjust the salaries and wages of the health workers

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He was reacting to the advertorial by JOHESU in some national dailies.

As a responsible government, we will do everything within our power to bring the ongoing strike action to an end as quickly as possible,” read a statement Olajide Oshundun, health ministry assistant director of information, issued on Adewole’s behalf.

“Indeed, the federal government has put machinery in place to ensure that the strike is called off by meeting with JOHESU officials on several occasions.

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“But what JOHESU is asking for is parity with medical doctors which is neither practicable nor acceptable to the federal government.”

Adewole described the current strike by the doctors as unfourtunate , stating that the lives of Nigerians are being affected.

The minister also denied that there was an agreement between the federal government and JOHESU prior to the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

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He said what the Union described as a 2014 agreement with the federal government were minutes of meetings with other organs of government.

Adewole added that JOHESU in September 2017 petitioned the government with 15 demands and the government had implemented 14 while the last demand was “being attended to.”

“The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari will not renege on any agreement entered into with any labour organisation including JOHESU,’’ he said.

The minister, therefore, appealed to the unions to “immediately call off the strike” and allow for the conclusion of the assignment given to a panel regarding the 2017 agreement.