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Nigeria’s Health-Care Workers to Begin 7-Day Strike on Monday

epa08627159 Babs Fafunwa Millennium Senior Secondary students wash their hands in a basin as they resume to write the West African Examination Council (WAEC) examination in Ojodu district in Lagos, Nigeria 26 August 2020. Earlier this month, the Federal government of Nigeria announced the re-opening of schools for exiting students in their final year to enable them write WAEC examination, after a five-month school closure to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease. EPA-EFE/AKINTUNDE AKINLEYE

(Bloomberg) --Nigeria’s Joint Health Sector Unions plans to start a seven-day strike on Monday over unpaid salaries and poor infrastructure in the health-care industry of Africa’s most populous nation.

By Emele Onu
Sep 13, 2020, 7:34 PM – Updated on Sep 13, 2020, 7:34 PM
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The workers are proceeding with the strike after they “have exhausted all alternative means of dispute resolution,” the umbrella body said in a tweet Sunday. “Failure to respond to our demands will result in indefinite strike action.”

#Strike All health workers under the umbrella body of JOHESU will proceed on 7 days warning strike by Mon 14th Sept to press home our demands including poor funding and infrastructural decay in health sector, discriminatory policies and favoritism, poor welfare of our members

— JOHESU Nigeria (@JohesuNigeria) September 13, 2020
Nigerian doctors suspended a strike last week to allow the government time to meet its own demands for payment of salary arrears and improvement in working conditions. Africa’s biggest crude producer is struggling to meet revenue targets after a lockdown to contain the covid-19 pandemic and a slump in oil income.

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