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February 4, 2013

Sack Minister of Health, workers urge Jonathan

BY VICTOR AHIUMA-YOUNG

LAGOS — FIVE unions in the nation’s health sector have said their campaigns for the sack of the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, is to better the health care delivery system in the country, urging President Goodluck Jonathan, to sack the minister before it is too late.

The five union: Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, MHWUN, National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, Senior Staff Association of Universities, Teaching Hospital, Research Institutes, SSAUTHURIAL, National Union of Pharmacists, Medical Technology and Professional Allied to Medicine, NUPMTPAM, and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, in a statement, said their campaign had no political bearing.