Normalcy may soon return to the nation’s health sector as members of the Nigerian Union of Allied Healthcare Professionals have suspended their three-week-old strike.

 

The workers have however given the Federal Government up to July 31 to resolve all their outstanding grievances.

 

The NUAHP president, Dr. Obinna Ogbonna, on Tuesday in Ibadan, Oyo State, announced the suspension of the strike embarked upon since May 18.

 

According to him, work will resume in all Federal Government-owned hospitals across the country on Wednesday (today).

 

The striking health workers comprise pharmacists, physiotherapists, medical laboratory scientists, radiographers, dieticians, dental technologists, optometrists, clinical psychologists and medical social workers.

 

 

The health workers’ strike had paralysed activities in many of the nation’s public hospitals with only doctors and nurses attending to the sick.

 

Ogbonna, while announcing the suspension of the strike, noted that it was to honour President Muhammadu Buhari.

 

He said, “The strike should be suspended in honour of the new government of President Buhari. The union is giving the government till July 31, 2015, starting from June 9, 2015, to see that issues under contention are dispensed with without further delay.

 

“The union is also calling on the President to intervene in the crisis in the health sector, especially where medical practitioners are oppressing other health professionals through the instrumentality of the Ministry of Health/Chief Medical Director.”

 

By: OLUFEMI ATOYEBI 

The Punch