JOHESU Expresses Dissatisfaction Over Yayale Report

The Joint Health Sector
Unions (JOHESU) has expressed dissatisfaction over the report of the former Head of Service of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, Presidential Committee of Experts on Inter-Professional Relationship in the Public Health Sector.
President Goodluck Jonathan has inaugurated the Committee to look into the unhealthy rivalry among  health professionals with a view to providing a lasting solution to the crisis in the sector.
In a statement signed by the union’s National President, Comrade Bobboi Kaigama in Abuja recently said the union demand its necessary to inform the Federal Government that the union outrightly reject the very biased and one sided Yayale Ahmed Presidential Committee of Experts on Professional Relationships in the Public Health Sector (YAPCEPRPH) in both public and professional interests.
The union alleged that the Presidential Committee Report is one-sided and favouring their counterpart.
The union declared that from all intents and purposes, the report that identified 50 areas of conflict among health workers in the country only seeks to further margninalise the union members and compromises the future of generations of its members who will be permanently made sub-servient to their contemporaries in medicine.
The statement called for the withdrawal of the report having not been in tune with national development and interest of the union members.
The Union, however, described the establishment of office of Chief  Medical Adviser to the President as a way of reintroducing the concept of Surgeon-General as demanded by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA).
They said the issue of creation of national healthcare commission to replace professional regulatory agencies and regulate tertiary health facilities is clearly out of line and a design to institutionalise confusion in the health sector.
The union said the proposed commission cannot take over the functions of 15  different professional regulatory councils as well as regulate the activities of 55 Federal Health Institutions.