According to Punch News, The age-long controversy between the
Nigerian Medical Association and the National Union of Allied Health
Professionals over who should bear
the title of a ‘consultant’ appeared
to have been laid to rest with the FG granting the approval for health
workers to become consultants in the various fields.
The government has issued a circular to announce the development.
The news is however coming at a time the Joint Health Sector Union, a
unified body for all associations in the health care sector, said it was
warming up for a fresh strike.
The Vice President of JOHESU, Mr. Felix Faniran, in an interview with
journalists in Abuja on Sunday, said, “We held a meeting with the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim,
on Thursday; the government only released one of the many circulars
we told them to release. The one they released was the one in respect
of consultancy status which we say they should correct and which
they have now corrected.
“Other health care professionals are recognised as consultants and that it
is their professional bodies that have the right to dictate who should be a
consultant or not and not the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria and
that such people shall be qualified to receive specialist allowance. That is
what we have gotten.”
He however said that JOHESU would be embarking on a fresh strike because
doctors had been receiving new salary structure to the detriment of other
health workers.
Faniran said, “We are in the same sector but they are enjoying new salary
while we have not gotten the circular yet, let alone implement it. Also, this
is already November, budgets have been prepared in all institutions and
ours have been prepared on old rate, so we can no longer wait.
Since the government don’t have an answer to this and the arrears of
CONHESS 10 skipping, they also have no answer to it. It was supposed to be
paid in 2013, they could not pay, we waited till 2014, they said it was not in
the budget for 2014 and that we have to wait till 2015, we are tired of all
these.
“On the issue of retirement age, we don’t need to argue on this one. There
has been a government White Paper in 1981 that whatever is happening in
the universities should be the same condition of service in the university
teaching hospitals.
“So, since the university is already enjoying 65 to 70 years retirement, it
should be made automatic to the university teaching hospitals, since they
are sister institutions.”
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Nigerian Medical Association and the National Union of Allied Health
Professionals over who should bear
the title of a ‘consultant’ appeared
to have been laid to rest with the FG granting the approval for health
workers to become consultants in the various fields.
The government has issued a circular to announce the development.
The news is however coming at a time the Joint Health Sector Union, a
unified body for all associations in the health care sector, said it was
warming up for a fresh strike.
The Vice President of JOHESU, Mr. Felix Faniran, in an interview with
journalists in Abuja on Sunday, said, “We held a meeting with the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim,
on Thursday; the government only released one of the many circulars
we told them to release. The one they released was the one in respect
of consultancy status which we say they should correct and which
they have now corrected.
“Other health care professionals are recognised as consultants and that it
is their professional bodies that have the right to dictate who should be a
consultant or not and not the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria and
that such people shall be qualified to receive specialist allowance. That is
what we have gotten.”
He however said that JOHESU would be embarking on a fresh strike because
doctors had been receiving new salary structure to the detriment of other
health workers.
Faniran said, “We are in the same sector but they are enjoying new salary
while we have not gotten the circular yet, let alone implement it. Also, this
is already November, budgets have been prepared in all institutions and
ours have been prepared on old rate, so we can no longer wait.
Since the government don’t have an answer to this and the arrears of
CONHESS 10 skipping, they also have no answer to it. It was supposed to be
paid in 2013, they could not pay, we waited till 2014, they said it was not in
the budget for 2014 and that we have to wait till 2015, we are tired of all
these.
“On the issue of retirement age, we don’t need to argue on this one. There
has been a government White Paper in 1981 that whatever is happening in
the universities should be the same condition of service in the university
teaching hospitals.
“So, since the university is already enjoying 65 to 70 years retirement, it
should be made automatic to the university teaching hospitals, since they
are sister institutions.”
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