Chairman of the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi in Anambra State, Comrade Gerald Adinma has warned the Federal Government to drop plans to privatise the laboratory, pharmacy and accounts departments of the teaching hospitals in Nigeria.
The JOHESU Chairman also said that the current warning strike embarked by the affiliate unions may transform into an indefinite industrial action if the Federal Government fails to abide by the agreement it willingly entered into with health workers.
Adinma who spoke to journalists on issues relating to the ongoing warning strike, in company of the Secretary Comrade Dauda, Smaila, condemned the attitude of Federal Government in failing to fulfill the agreement it entered with the workers willingly.
He warned that the alleged plan to privatize the laboratory, pharmacy and the account departments of the teaching hospitals would be met with a stiff resistance by their members, because it would not do any good to the health sector.
Comrade Adinma said that if the federal government wants to save cost through privatisation, it should start with the medical doctors who he alleged goes home with jumbo salaries derived from their employment and private practice.
The JOHESU boss insisted that the purported selective privatisation of the said key departments would be counterproductive, adding that when the security, laundry and catering departments were privatised, it was the same big men (doctors) that were given the contracts to manage those departments.
Adinma however, appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan administration to keep agreements it entered into with workers to prevent unnecessary industrial disputes, which has the potential of compounding the health problems and sufferings of Nigerians.
He stressed that federal government ought to be aware that the health care of the people should not be left to the forces of demand and supply
by CHARLES OKEKE
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