{"id":728,"date":"2020-09-15T18:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T17:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2020-09-16T14:02:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T13:02:47","slug":"nigerias-health-minister-begs-health-workers-to-call-off-strike-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/2020\/09\/15\/nigerias-health-minister-begs-health-workers-to-call-off-strike-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Health Minister Begs Health Workers To Call Off Strike Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Nigeria\u2019s Health Minister Begs Health Workers To Call Off Strike Action<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Health Minister has appealed to the Joint Health Sector Unions to suspend its one-week warning strike nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the appeal on Monday during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on <a href=\"\/tag\/covid19\">COVID-19<\/a> in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI use this opportunity to appeal to JOHESU to suspend their strike and go into a negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe position of the Ministry of Health is that <a href=\"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/2020\/09\/13\/nigerian-health-workers-declare-nationwide-strike\/\">strikes <\/a>by healthcare workers jeopardise the lives of citizens, especially at such times of global health emergencies as now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria needs the service of all our health workers to control the spread of COVID-19. Issues around allowances are multi-sectoral and have always been served with negotiations no matter how long it took,\u201d he pleaded.<\/p>\n<p>The minister\u2019s plea is coming hours after JOHESU President, Dr. Biobelomoye Josiah, asked the federal government to attend to its demands with the same seriousness it accorded that of the National Association of Resident Doctors.<\/p>\n<p>NARD went on strike over the same issues but called it off days after coming to an agreement with federal government representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Health Minister Begs Health Workers To Call Off Strike Action Nigeria\u2019s Health Minister has appealed to the Joint Health Sector Unions to suspend its one-week warning strike nationwide. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the appeal on Monday during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. \u201cI use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[87,289,287,315],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Health-workers-5.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pci3ty-bK","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}