Staff of Jos UniversityTeaching Hospital today, 1st of August, 2016 barricaded the gates of the hospital and prevented People from entering the hospital premises.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X2m2NREUGU

This action was embarked upon due to the adamant attitude of the Chief Medical Director of the University teaching hospital. The Staff had been on strike several times on demands that were not met by the administration. The staff earlier embarked on a strike due to lack of payments of salaries, allowances and also seek for repairs of diagnostic machines such as the Magnetic Resonace Imaging Machine that is not working properly. Other demands were the shortage of consumable equipments such as bandages, face mask, sphygmomanometers, gauze and many other items that have been in shortage in the hospital. The CMD, Prof. Banwat could not meet up to the demands and instead demanded for their salaries to be stopped for two months in keeping with the law of "No work,No Pay".

Following this, the association of Joint Health Sector Union , JOHESU have decided to stop the entrance of all into the university and now demands for the removal of the CHief Medical Director immediately.
Also, the Association of Residents Doctors (ARD) of JUTH are to join in the strike and protest tomorrow, 2nd of August. The ARD are joining the strike due to reduction in their salaries of the sum of 50,000 naira or more. The ARD had earlier warned the management by embarking on a 1 week strike but the management could not refund the deducted salary.

Juth again..dey practically hv not worked ds year oooo..