JOHESU, APHA to Begin Industrial Action Tomorrow

The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) and Assembly of Health Care Professionals (APHA), may commence their suspended industrial strike tomorrow, February 18, 2016. The group has given the Federal Government until Wednesday to meet their demands, after which they will act on their threat.

President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), a member of AHPA, Ahmed I. Yakasai, has called for 15 per cent of the national budget to be allocated to the health sector as well as full implementation of the National Health Act with provision for the one per cent of the consolidated national fund, which is about N60 billion.

 “I hope the government will not allow this to degenerate into a strike because the vulnerable, especially the patients, will pay for it. If you have money to fly out, the downtrodden, the masses, cannot afford that. So, the government has to do something quickly to prevent that kind of thing from happening.

“We have said it is 3.65 per cent but we thought that the one per cent of the consolidated revenue will be reflected in the budget. Do not forget that even the minister said that the budget submitted was not really the actual budget. So, they will go back to the drawing board and come back.

“We hope that probably the N60 billion from the one per cent consolidated fund will be reflected. If we really want to improve Primary Health Care (PHC), that one per cent must be there.

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