…Demand autonomy for Primary Health care board.
BEVERLY HILLS, March 15, (THEWILL) – Medical workers in Bayelsa state under the aegis of Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN have commended the state governor, Douye Diri for approving the implementation of promotion due them as well as the N30,000 minimum wage.
The state chairman of MHWUN, Comrade Barnabas Simon gave the commendation yesterday in an interview with THEWILL in Yenagoa.
According to him, the approval for implementation of their promotions was a sign that the government meant well for workers in the state.
Simon enumerated problems facing them in the state prior to the coming into office of the Diri’s led government to include confusion as to whether the state’s local government service commission or the primary health care board should have control of the affairs of the medical and health workers amongst others.
The MHWUN helmsman said with the recent re-drafting of the control of medical and health staffers into the local government system, the union now know exactly their position as to their remuneration and other sundry issues concerning them.
“We thank Governor Douye Diri for the approval of the implementation of our promotion, which from 2015-date our promotions weren’t implemented, but Diri has just given the approval which is going well with all of us”, he said.
“Before now, we didn’t even know whose duty it was to take charge of the primary health workers in the state.
“Whether it was the local government service commission or the primary health care board was what we don’t know until Diri came and took us back to the local governments”, he added.
The MHWUN boss called on government to grant autonomy to the state’s primary health care board and said its present status makes it lack the requisite powers to function effectively, just as he implored members to put in their best in performance and productivity to justify the confidence reposed in them by the present under the present administration.
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