Striking health workers at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) have called off the strike action they embarked upon to press home their demands.
The workers under the umbrella body of LASUTH Workers' Forum embarked on strike on March 24th to demand the implementation of the
Consolidated Health Salary Scale (CONHESS), refund of deducted
allowances and restoration of shift duty allowance.
The workers also demanded for one month salary bonus that was paid to selected healthcare providers.
Announcing the suspension of the strike, the Chairman of the forum, Mr Rasheed Bamishe said the workers would resume on March 31.
He said: "Our position collectively is that we are suspending the strike with immediate effect from Monday, March 31.
"The decision is based on the commitment we got from the management
of LASUTH and backed up with the board resolution on the issues of free
health service and uniforms for the staff.
"We also got commitment from the Commissioner for Health, Dr Jide
Idris, assuring us that the issues on ground will be addressed."
He promised that the workers would ensure that the hospital environment would be clean before the resumption date.
"It is not our wish to go on strike, but it became necessary that we had no option. We pray and hope that we will be able to give the best to encourage our patients, " he said.
Members of the forum include the Medical and Health
Workers Union of Nigeria and National Association of Nigerian Nurses and
Midwives. Others are the Nigerian Union of Physiotherapists, Pharmacists
and other Technologies Allied to Medicine as well as the Association of
Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria.
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