UMUAHIA-THE stand off between the ABIA state government and the state Council of Medical Health Workers Union may ground health facilities in rural communities in the state if both stick to their guns.
The health workers called on the state government to fully implement the CONHESS salary scale to all categories of health workers in the state, saying that the government had nothing more to hold on since the Arbitration Court had ruled in favour of the present leadership.
According to the Secretary of the health workers, Omini Oieh, it was wrong for the governement to withold the check-off dues of the workers.
Ojeh also called for the payment of outstanding salaty of some of its members in some Local governemnt areas, particularly, Bende.
According to the Union, the scale as was being presently implemented in the state was partial as only health workers in the Ministry of Health the were benefitting.
The union specifically accused the governement of also not paying the enhanced salary scale to health workers in the rural areas of the state.
Ojeh noted that no health worker at the local governement level is currently enjoying the CONHESS salary scale, but commended Governor Theodore Orji for his interest in the health sector.
He, however, noted that if the workers who drive the sector were not happy they may not be able to give their best for the full benefit of the huge investment the government had made in the sector.
The union secretary further called on the governor to wade into what he called "the diversion of our check-off dues," saying that the union has no leadership crisis.
"Governor Orji may not be aware of the problems we are there calling on him to intervene in line with workers' friendly nature", Ojeh said.
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