The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) has strongly condemned the selection of the health reform committees set up under President Buhari’s Administration saying that members of the committees does not represent the large proportion of the health sectors.The foreign legion naturally will invade our shores with their own brands of essential medicines which will destroy the remains of the struggling local pharmaceutical manufacturing industry”, he said.
The association particularly questioned the act of impunity and mismanagement by some Chief Executives of tertiary hospitals. “Many Chief Executives of hospitals have continued to run our hospitals as if they are private estates without government statutory rules and regulations. The gross mismanagement of our hospitals by some Chief Executives of tertiary hospitals has assumed an alarming proportion”, the association said. While asking for an urgent redress of these issues, they called for the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding the welfare of health workers.
“We appeal to President Buhari to call the Federal Ministry of Health to order to comply fully with the judgments of; The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) in the JOHESU vs Federal Ministry of Health case of 2013; the NICN judgment in the case of the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria vs Federal Ministry of Health case 2013; the Supreme Court of Nigeria judgment in the case of National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives vs Federal Ministry of Health.
Source:Medical World Nigeria
