By Abdulfatai Sobande
Medical activities at the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital,Aro, Abeokuta,the Ogun State capital have been grounded, because of the ongoing nationwide strike action by the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU)
Patients at the hospital, could not have access to health care service at the centre, as health workers joined their counterparts across Nigeria, to compel the presidency to meet their demands.
Addressing newsmen, the union expressed concerns over the infrastructural decay in various government hospitals across the country.
Chairman of the hospital’s JOHESU and Senior Staff Association, Comrade Olayode Oladeji, during the news conference , accused presidency of favourism among the stakeholders in the country’s health sector.
Presidency according to Oladeji, is witholding two month salaries of the union members who went on strike two years ago on this same issue while the salaries of the medical doctors who also embarked on strike for two or three times were paid without delay.
He explained that the union had notified the hospital management about the strike, saying the union does not have any grieviances with it.
The union leader and other notable leaders of affiliated health unions including Comrade Olaolu Olabode ,Comrade Segun Olukoju and Comrade Ajao,however asked the presidency to do the needful by addressing those demands in the interest of the public.
