lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has urged doctors and other health workers  to desist from using strike to make demands.

 

Fashola spoke yesterday at the second convocation of the Lagos State College of Health Technology in Yaba, Lagos.

The governor approved the employment of the 265 graduates of the college to work in the State Primary Health Care (PHC).

 

He noted that the effect of industrial actions violates doctors’ professional calling.

Fashola said: “Medical workers, from the lowest medical worker to the highest in the chain of command and the team, you are like gods on earth. Only sick people know your importance.”

 

The governor said workers in other sub-sectors of the economy are not satisfied with their remuneration, adding that such workers still do not hold governments by the jugular.

 

According to him, workers who restrain from strikes do not want Nigeria to fail.

Fashola hailed the management of the college for positively impacting the lives of the new graduates.

 

He said: “What delights me most is that we are producing graduates in areas where the Lagos economy has a compelling need – the primary healthcare, the primary healthcare development.

 

“We are producing graduates who will help us to achieve our objectives. So, to show that we are ready to work our talk, I have indicated and now say publicly that all of the graduating students today will be immediately employed by our government. We will work the process. We will go to the House of Assembly, if it is necessary, to raise supplementary budget to funds this. But I make this commitment to you as a matter of honour.”