BY CHIDI NKWOPARA
OWERRI – Staff of Imo Specialist Hospital, Owerri, yesterday embarked on indefinite industrial action over irregular payment of salaries and anti-labour policies of the hospital management.
At about 2.30pm when Vanguard visited the hospital, relatives of patients on admission were seen moving their loved ones hurriedly from the hospital to alternative health institutions.
Vanguard investigations revealed that before the workers closed shop, they marched through a distance of about five kilometres from the Specialist Hospital to Government House, to lay their complaint.
They carried placards with varying inscriptions, some of which read: "Are we staff of Imo Specialist Hospital, Government staff or private staff; If you no fit manage the hospital, away!!!; and Rescue General Hospital, Owerri; Okorocha, please take us back to HMB".
Vanguard Nigeria