Health services in public hospitals across Delta State have come under pressure as the ongoing strike by allied health professionals escalated. The Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals said the strike followed months of unsuccessful engagements with the state government over allowances and other conditions. The state chairman of NUAHP, Comrade Uruwayino Charles Samuel Jr, said the union began engaging the Ministry of Health on February 1st over issues including the payment of 16 months arrears of the peculiar allowance and the implementation of a circular on the review of allowances of health practitioners. The workers have insisted they will not return to work until their demands are addressed.
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