Abstract
<p>Recently, Nigerian health sector especially the hospitals has been enervated by grievances, antagonism, unpleasantness, dissension, and apprehension. Unfortunately, the industry involved in ensuring workers’ healthcare and that of the populace has experienced tempestuous times. Slyly, issues whose pedigrees could be traced to superiority, autonomy, compensation schemes and other conditions of service gradually meandered into the public health sector leading to health workers and non-health workers being at loggerhead with one another. As such, the serenity and harmony once witnessed in government hospitals have been jumbled by incoherent differences of various groups in the hospital. This paper therefore proposes to examine the causes of disputes at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital; what has been done, and what needs to be done by all and sundry and more especially, the role National Industrial Court (NIC) has played in sustaining harmony in Nigerian health sector. Also, it will examine the role National industrial Court has previously played and can still play futuristically to enhance and sustain the desired industrial harmony in University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, the entire health sector and other sectors of the economy.</p>
Highlights
In recent times, Government owned hospitals in Nigeria have experience ‘wear’ and ‘tear’ as they carry out their duties
Issues whose pedigrees could be traced to superiority, autonomy, compensation schemes and other conditions of service gradually meandered into the public health sector leading to health workers and non-health workers being at loggerhead with one another
Issues whose pedigrees could be traced to superiority, autonomy, compensation schemes and other conditions of service gradually meandered into Nigerian public health sector leading to health workers and non-workers being at loggerhead with one another
Summary
Government owned hospitals in Nigeria have experience ‘wear’ and ‘tear’ as they carry out their duties. The cirques keep deepening and as such are gravely affecting the smooth running of the hospitals These conflicts have trickled down to unremitting strikes and other industrial actions.conflicts are inevitable in an organisation, as Mullins (2005) proposed, they still occur even if organisations have taken great care to try and avoid it. The National Industrial Court among others has played either Advisory role or adjudicative role at one time or the other to ensure the sustainability of harmony among different professions at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital. This paper proposes to examine the role National Industrial Court (NIC) has played in sustaining harmony in Nigeria health sector. It will examine the role National industrial Court has previously played and can still play futuristically to enhance the desired industrial harmony in University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, the entire health sector and other sectors of the economy
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