Posted on: Fri 10-04-2020

The National President of Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals, Comrade Dr. O. C. Ogbonna expresses as very unfortunate and most disheartening, the statement of the Honourable Minister of Health in the joint parliament on the issue of hazard allowance for health workers. The Honourable Minister, who ought to defend hazard allowance for health workers that have placed their lives and that of their family in harm's way since the epidemic of lassa through the pandemic of COVID-19, claims ignorant of the need to enhance the hazard allowance of health workers. As at today, Nigeria has recorded 188 deaths from lassa fever, yet the Honourable Minister claims  that he is unaware that health workers hazard allowance is N5,000.

This is most unfortunate and a potent recipe for industrial unrest in the health sector. 

I therefore call on the govt to implement without fail all the various incentives as announced by the finance minister on the 5th of April 2020.

Comrade Dr. O. C. Ogbonna

National President, NUAHP.

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