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Ekiti State: Health Workers Begin indefinite Strike |Read Why

Udeme James

Aug 22, 2022

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Health workers in the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital on Monday in Ado-Ekiti protested the non-implementation of minimum wage by the state government, among other demands.

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The protest by the workers under the aegis of Joint Health Workers Union (JOHESU) which started as early as 8:00 a.m., left some of the patients in the facility unattended to.

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The aggrieved workers locked the major entrances to the hospital, thus preventing all other workers from gaining access to the hospital.

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Aside from the issue of minimum wage, the workers were also aggrieved over non remittance of their cooperative deductions, special levies, as well as union dues.

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The Chairperson of JOHESU, Omotola Farotimi, while addressing journalists over the issue said, "It's a matter which government has failed to resolve over the years.

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"It includes non remittance of our cooperative deductions, special levies, union dues and implementation of minimum wage.

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"We are being owed deductions for two years and we are getting tired. This development has led to brain drain as many of our best hands have left for greener pastures.

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"We signed an MOU with the state government that every approval for staff of federal teaching hospitals would be given to us.

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"However, up until now, we have yet to get the minimum wage which has been approved since 2019. The last board approved it but the management failed to pay.''

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Mrs Farotimi described the situation as disheartening, adding that in spite of their sacrifices to the state government, the workers had been treated so badly by successive administrations.

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She said the protest would continue until the state government did the needful.

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Some relatives of patients who preferred anonymity described the development as painful, saying patients were the ones bearing the brunt.

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