It said the appointment of Chief Medical Director/Chief Executive Officer should no longer be restricted to medical doctors only but thrown open to enable other health professionals to compete
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Nigeria Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) has asked the federal government to pay withheld salaries of its members in various federal health institutions to avoid an industrial crisis in the health sector of the nation.
The demand was contained in a communique issued at the end of its national executive council (NEC) meeting in Abuja signed by the Acting Chairman, Comrade Uche Okafor and the general Secretary, Martin Egbanubi.
The health workers, who accused the federal government of being selective in the implementation of the “No work, No pay” policy during strike action, said that the government had refused to pay health workers while members of the NMA were paid.
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NUAHP urges FG to wade into NMA, JOHESU, AHPA crisis
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… Says NMA, NARD should not be recognised as Unions
By Chioma Obinna
The Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals, NUAHP, has urged the Federal Government’ to urgently wade into the ongoing squabbles between members of the Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, the Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations, AHPA and the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, as well as the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, to end all forms of discriminations in the health sector.
The Union made the call in a 3-page rejoinder tagged: The NMA’s Media Outburst on the Medical And Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) (Repeal And Re-Enactment Bill 2020),” aimed at engendering sanity in the health system as well as bring lasting, harmonious working relations among the various professionals jointly signed by the National President of NUAHP, Dr. Ogbonna Obinna and the General Secretary of the union, Com. Martin Egbanu