Health workers at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, under the aegis of the Joint Action Committee of Unions/Associations have protested against an alleged plan by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, to impose his candidate as the Medical Director of the hospital.
The workers, who were armed with different placards, staged a protest on Wednesday within the premises of the hospital.
They had alleged that the Federal Ministry of Health had concluded plans to impose one Prof. Abdulsemiu Musa who they claimed ‘is not an insider and does not know where the shoe pinches’. The associations which participated in the protest were the FMC Idi-Aba, Abeokuta chapters of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, Association of Resident Doctors, National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, and Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospitals, Research Institutes and Associated Institutions.
Others were Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria and National Union of Allied Health Professionals.
In a communiqué addressed to the minister of health, a copy of which was made available to our correspondent, the protesting workers told Adewole that Musa’s appointment ‘would be a recipe for anarchy and industrial disharmony’.
Hunyinbo said, “I am the acting Medical Director not the substantive MD. It is the government that will appoint the substantive Medical Director. But what I was told was that someone outside the FMC who went through the examination will be brought in, and that is why people are protesting. But that is left for the government.”
By: Samuel Awoyinfa, Abeokuta
The Punch News
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