Nasarawa State House of Assembly has constituted a five-man committee to look into the demands from Local Government Joint Unions of Health Workers in the state.

Inaugurating the committee in Lafia, the Chairman, House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Ibrahim Alkali, said the committee would look at the issues presented by the Unions.

He said the outcome of the committee findings would assist in ensuring lasting solutions to health workers strike and boost the working relationship between workers and the state government.

He urged members of the committee to put their differences aside and work for the peace and progress of the state.

Alkali said that the term of reference of the committee was to relate with the existing committee working on the modality for the financial implementation of promotions and new minimum wage among other issues.

He said that the committee finding from the existing committee works would thereafter go to the technical committee on the modality for implementation.

“We will constitute a technical committee to see how it can work with the findings to achieve lasting results at the Local Government Area,” he said.

Alkali, who is the Chairman of the constituted committee, said that the House intervention was to resolve the matter once and for all.

Earlier, spokesman of the Joint Union, Mr. Ayuba Ismaila-Oko, presented five items as the demands for the Union.

The items include implementation of promotion, implementation of the new minimum wage, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for 810 Primary Health Care Workers in the state among others.

Ismaila- Oko agreed to inform the assembly about the resolution of the Joint Union after meeting with the members.

On his part, Mr. Ahmed Yahaya, the state Commissioner for Health, appealed to the striking health workers to accept the request by the assembly to call off the strike.

Yahaya, who was represented by Dr. Ibrahim Alhassan, noted that the call-off was in the interest of peace and development while the negotiation is on for an amicable settlement.

He said that all arrangements have been put in place by the government to address some of their lingering challenges.

The Newsmen reports that the meeting featured a presentation of 6,000 pieces of overall gowns, 2 cartons of face mask, and 600 pieces of hands sanitizer to the union by the Assembly.