Patients In Anambra Hospitals Face Dilemma As Health Workers Begin Indefinite Strike Tuesday

AWKA – Patients seeking medical care or admitted in gov­ernment hospitals across Ànambra State are in for excruciating times as health workers begin indef­inite strike Tuesday over government’s complacent attitude towards their de­mands.

Union leaders in the health sector had held a press conference notifying the powers-that-be that health workers in Anam­bra State were living in abject poverty due to poor remuneration and govern­ment’s refusal to imple­ment the 2010 CONHESS for them which other states in Nigeria have long imple­mented.

Following series of in-camera meetings be­tween representatives of the health workers and government shortly af­ter the press conference, health professionals re­scinded decision to with­draw their services from hospitals so that patients won’t suffer unjustly but it does appear that the deci­sion to suspend the initial planned strike was taken for granted by the govern­ment.

Consequently, health workers in the state have resolved to shut down ser­vices in all government health facilities beginning from Tuesday to vent their anger over government’s insensitive and noncha­lant attitude towards their welfare as contained in a statement dated September 26, 2025 and jointly signed by Dr. Ikedi Onah, Comrade Ugwu Matthew, and Com­rade Afam Udeozo.