Medical and Health Worker's Union of Nigeria which today is arguably the largest trade union of health workers on the continent of Africa, was formed with the merger of seventeen (17) house unions in the health sector, during the 1976 – 78 restructuring of unions in Nigeria, along industrial lines.

 

MHWUN organizes health attendants; health assistants; health technicians; and health technologist/officers in all the institutions/departments that provide human or animal health services cutting across Federal, State, and Local Government and private health institutions.