Group appeals to Fayemi over health workers’ strike
The Ekiti Justice
Group (EJG) has asked the Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi, to
resolve the strike embarked upon by medical and health workers in the
state, saying “issues bordering on lives of Ekiti people should not be
treated with levity by any government.”
Its national
coordinator, Tunji Oluwasanmi, said it was painful that the strike
action has denied children in the state the benefit of the ongoing
national immunisation exercise.
“From information
available to us, the strike action was occasioned by Fayemi’s approval
of 60 percent increment in the health workers salary, as against the
100 approved by the immediate past governor of the state, Olusegun Oni.
“When Fayemi was
approached for revalidation of the approval already given by Oni, he
(Fayemi) revalidated the approval for University Teaching Hospital
(UTH) alone, leaving out those in State Hospitals, General Hospitals,
Comprehensive Health Centres, Blue Hospital, and other health
institutions in the state,” he said.
“For this reason,
health workers in Ekiti State have been on strike since last Thursday,
denying Ekiti people the benefit of health care delivery, and we have
gathered that casualties are already being recorded,” Mr. Oluwasanmi
said.
He said the group wished to implore Mr. Fayemi to pay more attention to the plight of the people affected by the strike action.
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