Health Workers Begin Strike At Ilorin Teaching Hospital

Members of the Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital have engaged in a 3-day sit-down strike to protest plans to privatize and commercialise the diagnostic section of the hospital. The union’s chairman, Olatunde Oluwawumi, says “we wonder, we brainstorm on what benefits this ill-advised move of the management of UILTH will bring to the innocent people of Kwara State and environs. The truth is management has been deliberately killing the radiology department, especially the unit belonging to the images scientists, for private to thrive because of their own selfish reasons by their refusal to respond to several memos written to the management.”