Health workers demand for harzadous allowance from the government

Health workers in the state and the country are calling on their counterparts to join the campaign against uniform hazard allowances for everyone in the hospital regardless of the level of exposure to hospital hazards.

As stated In a communique issued out on this hazard allowance, "we are all  exposed to hazard but as health care providers, we all know that some group or class of workers are exposed to more dangerous hazard than others".

 They stated that nurses,doctors, laboratory workers, ward aids / cleaners are the most vulnerable class of health workers when it comes to exposure to the most dangerous hospital hazard. They deserve special and distinct pay for the hazard they are exposed to on a daily basis.

"We deserve 100% benefit from National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). We are soldiers in the battle field. If we lost the battle to COVID-19 or any other pandemic, epidemic or any form of outbreak, cities, villages, towns and countries get subdued.




 












 They called on the politicians to consider this hazard allowance just like they considered newspaper allowances, wardrobe, sitting, inconvenience allowances per month,treat essential workers with essential packages not necessarily when there is an outbreak and also build good hospitals that can with stand the stress of outbreaks.