FG Urges Health Professionals to Desist From Incessant Strike

The federal government has urged health professionals to cease from continual industrial action which has now become a usual occurrence in the health sector, adding that labour disputes are better resolved through dialogue rather than strike and violence.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole said that incessant labour disputes have been ravaging health sector despite effort made by the present administration to revive the healthcare system.

“Health sector is one of the essential services that are prohibited by law from embarking on strike action. However the Ministry of Health has been subjected to so much ridicule and embarrassment as a result of frequent strikes by the different professionals that make up its work-force”

Adewole warned that henceforth any staff who chooses the path of strike in enforcing his/her demand should not be paid salaries and allowances within the period of strike.

“In order to revert to path of decency and discourage impunity, all Chief Executive Officers of agencies and hospitals under the supervision of the ministry are to strictly, enforce the No Work No Pay Policy.