Health workers under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations (AHPA) have appealed to
Ajurotu, who reacted to a recent publication by the Nigeria Medical Association and the Nigerian Association of Medical and Dental Academics alleged that both medical groups were unanimous in taking a position that an adjustment in the Consolidated Health Salary Structure would amount to a distortion in the relativity of existing CONHESS and Consolidated Medical Salary Structure .
He said prior to the ‘’introduction of discriminatory salary scales in Nigeria especially the era pre-1991 when late Prof. Olikoye Ransome-Kuti under the military regime of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, imposed the Medical Salary Scale , the norm was that Pharmacists and Physicians entered the Civil Service on the equivalent of GL 08 for Internship and Houseman-ship respectively and move to GL 09 after Youth Service.
He argued that, in real terms, salary experts will confirm that true relativity is permanently entrenched at the entry point in the Civil Service. ‘’In the last 10 years, the Hospital Services Dept. which is the hatchet tool of oppression by the FMOH and NMA has produced the likes of Dr. Mrs. Shokunbi, Dr. Balami, Dr. Hammedu, Dr. Mrs. Adebiyi and recently Dr. Salma Anas. These are the agent provocateurs used to prevent and scuttle adjustment of CONHESS since January 2, 2014 in Nigeria. These facts are there for anybody to verify.’’
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