ABSUTH health workers resume strike

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Health workers of Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH), Aba, on Tuesday resumed their indefinite strike, locking the entrance to the hospital and depriving patients and other workers access to the complex.

The striking workers, who are demanding 10 months’ salary arrears owed them by the state government, said they would not also allow the Chief Medical Director, Prof. Chucks Kamalu’s car to enter.

The workers, dressed in black clothes, had placards bearing inscriptions like: “ABSUTH workers are hungry. But why”?, “ABSUTH workers can no longer pay school fees, bills, feed!’’

Others bore: “New employees have not been paid from May 2018 till date”, “Abia State Government has turned ABSUTH workers to beggars”, “How long shall we continue to cry for our salaries?’’.

Mr Sylvanus Inyama, the Branch Chairman, Medical and Health Workers Union,…



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