States, local government health workers to join national strike

The Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) says it has directed its counterparts in the states and local governments to join the ongoing health workers strike by midnight today (Wednesday).

The national chairman of JOHESU, Biobelemoye Joy Josiah who disclosed this during a press briefing today in Abuja, said the association made the decision because a series of meetings with the government to resolve the crisis had not yielded any positive result.


JOHESU, an association of all health workers except doctors, has been on strike since three weeks.

As a result, laboratories have been shut with no technicians and technologists to run them, and there are also no staff to collect patients’ records,too.

Patients’ are worst hit as nurses and midwives — some of the most influential members of JOHESU — have all downed tools in all federal health institutions.

The health workers are demanding salary adjustments among others.