Health Workers Resume Work Today

Health workers nationwide last Friday, September 27, resumed normal working activities having ended weeks of strike action which paralyzed the country’s health system during the period under review and has led to uncertainty among citizens and foreign nationals. Their return to work followed an apparent response or understanding reached between them (NAHWUL) and the government of meeting some of their demands like salary arrears, and perhaps equipment as well as supply of needed drugs to various public hospitals, clinics and health posts countrywide.
Making announcement at news conference on Friday, September 27, in Monrovia, George Williams, NAHWUL’ Secretary General mandated all of the health workers to resume work at their places of assignments with immediate effect as the strike action had ended.
He said their grounding of tools does not suggest that they don’t care for their compatriots, but they took the action having exercised patience for a long period of time and that nobody was giving them listening ear in responding to their demands.
For the government, Health Minister Willimina Jallah thanked the leadership and the general membership of the health workers of Liberia for listening to the crying of the people to call off their strike action for the sake of humanity.
She said it was not an easy thing in reaching the negotiation however; she paid tribute to all stakeholders who assisted in talking to the health workers call off their protest or strike action which has created uneasiness nationwide.
Some 11,000 health workers of the public sector recently striked, demanding for salary arrears for the month of July, August and perhaps September, 2019, as well as increment in their earnings instead of using the current scheme of salary harmonization.

Health workers nationwide last Friday, September 27, resumed normal working activities having ended weeks of strike action which paralyzed the country’s health system during the period under review and has led to uncertainty among citizens and foreign nationals. Their return to work followed an apparent response or understanding reached between them (NAHWUL) and the government of meeting some of their demands like salary arrears, and perhaps equipment as well as supply of needed drugs to various public hospitals, clinics and health posts countrywide.
Making announcement at news conference on Friday, September 27, in Monrovia, George Williams, NAHWUL’ Secretary General mandated all of the health workers to resume work at their places of assignments with immediate effect as the strike action had ended.
He said their grounding of tools does not suggest that they don’t care for their compatriots, but they took the action having exercised patience for a long period of time and that nobody was giving them listening ear in responding to their demands.
For the government, Health Minister Willimina Jallah thanked the leadership and the general membership of the health workers of Liberia for listening to the crying of the people to call off their strike action for the sake of humanity.
She said it was not an easy thing in reaching the negotiation however; she paid tribute to all stakeholders who assisted in talking to the health workers call off their protest or strike action which has created uneasiness nationwide.
Some 11,000 health workers of the public sector recently striked, demanding for salary arrears for the month of July, August and perhaps September, 2019, as well as increment in their earnings instead of using the current scheme of salary harmonization.