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Nigeria healthy service disrupt afte as strike starts

Medical services have been disrupted again in Nigeria as healthcare workers in public hospitals have gone on an indefinite strike over issues relating to pay and welfare. The Joint Health Sector Unions (Johesu) said they had given the government a two-week ultimatum to meet their demands but nothing was done. Johesu is the association of health workers apart from doctors, dentists and nurses. They are in charge of patients' records, laboratories and other medical services in government-owned hospitals. The health workers are asking for the immediate approval and implementation of an agreed salary structure, immediate payment of outstanding allowances and a review of the retirement age among other issues. This comes just three days before the end of President Muhammadu Buhari's second term in office. Johesu national vice-president Dr Obinna Ogbonna told the BBC that the incoming government should be ready to do the right thing. "Let the new government inherit the strike. Af...