The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, in Kogi State has asked Governor Usman Ododo to recruit health workers into the various hospital and primary healthcare centres in the state, decrying the acute shortage of manpower in the health sector.
The union's Chairman, Gabriel Amari made the call at its Eight Quadrennial State Delegates Conference, noting the shortage of manpower across the 21 Local Governments of the state. Amari itemized some of the demands of the medical workers to the Government of Kogi State saying 'The Kogi State Government should harmonize the health workers salaries as there are lots of disparity in the salaries of the state health workers.
Amari, who also lamented on the present challenges medical workers are facing in the Country said 'This delegate conference comes at a time of great national adversity and precarity. The state of our national economy and how it affects the health sector is of immense apprehension to many of us stakeholders in the industry.
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