MAKURDI — Health Care Workers across the 21 local governments in Kogi State have threatened to embark on strike if their demand for improved salaries is not met by the government.
Comrade Rose Momoh, State Secretary, Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria in a statement issued to journalists on Saturday, said health workers recently received 25 per cent of their January salary in 2022.
She explained that the primary health workers in the local governments have been collecting 30 to 35 per cent of their salaries for the past two years.
The statement read in part: “The salary the Kogi State Government is paying to our health workers at the local government level cannot take care of their transport from home to workplace, not to talk of bringing food to the table for the family to survive.
“We can no longer bear this continuous hardship we are facing. Health workers risk their lives every day to save others, yet, their salaries are nothing to write home about. Who have we offended? Is this what is obtainable in other states?”
“Our demand is that the government should complete the process of Primary Health Care under one roof, and move the PHC workers and their salaries to the State Primary Health Care Development Agency immediately. We are also demanding that primary health care workers be paid 100 per cent like their state counterparts.”
The statement added that the union continues to lose their members on a daily basis due to hardship they experienced as a result of poor salary regime and appealed to the State Government and health partners in the state to come to their aid.
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