330 Ad-hoc staff of Health and Nutrition Emergency Response Project working in Borno State are appealing to the Federal and Borno State governments, to come to their aid and pay their three months’ allowances owed since March.
The Emergency Health Workers are under a project, set up under the auspices of the Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the Borno State Ministry of Health.
The Emergency Health Workers, made up of 33 teams, comprising 10 members each, totalling 330, have been in Borno State to respond to the nutritional and health challenges, and emergencies occasioned, as a result of the insurgents’ activities, in Borno State.
They comprise of Doctors, Nurses, Pharmacists, Medical Laboratory Scientists and Technicians, posted to all the local government Areas in Borno State, where their services were needed.
Isaac Newton Nsoha a Pharmacist, and spokesman for the Emergency Health Workers, says the untold hardship encountered in the discharge of their duties, cannot be quantified, with the over one hundred and fifty Million Naira being owed, all of them.
They are appealing to the recipient Borno State Governor, in whose state their services were rendered, especially for the welfare and well-being of the people, living in the various Internally Displaced Persons, IDP Camps, to help them get their allowances.
Borno State already has a dearth of health workers and the Commissioner for Health, Salihu Kwaya-Bura says, the State government is looking into the matter.
(Editor: Tunde Orebiyi)
