JOHESU laments manhandling of members in Edo

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The Joint Health Sec­tor Unions (JOHE­SU), has lamented the manhandling of its branch chairman, Com­rade Fidelis Ogobor, at Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) in Edo State.
The union fingered the chairman of the hospital’s Medical Advisory Com­mittee (CMAC), Dr. Wil­son Ovienria, in Ogobor’s ordeal, which occurred on Friday, September 22, 2017.
In a reaction to the development, JOHESU President, Comrade Bio­belemoye Joy Josiah, told journalists in Abuja that Comrade Ogobor was leading a monitoring team to ensure compli­ance of workers with the strike ordered by the na­tional leadership of the union when Ovienria slapped him.
He said: “We express our displeasure with the ISTH CMAC who stooped so low to have slapped Comrade Ogo­bor and destroyed the mobile handset (iPhone) belonging to another of our member, Mr. Tune.
“JOHESU, by this state­ment called on the Minis­ter of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, to as a matter of urgency, call doctors across hospitals in Ni­geria to be mindful of provoking our members who have remained calm since we called for strike and will remain so, while waiting patiently for gov­ernment to do the need­ful.
“JOHESU wishes to inform the Honourable Minister of Health by this statement and a message sent to the minister’s of­fice, that after assaulting members who did not try to retaliate but only noti­fied the police DPO at Ir­rua, the ISTH CMAC has continued to threaten to attack our union leaders and to sack workers.
“We also wish to re­mind the minister that during the period the Na­tional Association of Res­ident Doctors (NARD) embarked on strike, no JOHESU member had any cause to interfere with the doctors or any member of the Nige­rian Medical Association (NMA)

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