Some health workers of the Yaounde Emergency Unit took to the streets on May 22nd, 2023 to protest against poor working conditions amongst other issues they face.

The health workers demand an increase salaries as well as increase in medical resources. They stated that they are fed up with the “contractualization of all temporary public health training, which is 27,000 staff representing 60% of the workforce who are working without wages and affiliation to CNPS,”.

Carrying messages on placards stating “A nurse in distress is more dangerous than a soldier at the war front,” they also express their dissatisfaction due to the limited resources allocated which can not meet the needs of patients.

“ we are not able to work properly due to limited equipments. Some times we have critical emergency cases but we can’t handle them,” a nurse stated.

The Nurses demand an increase in salaries of staff from the 1st to the 6th category to be put at 75000F and 95,000 for those from the 7th to the 12th category.

They also denounce the nonpayment of CNPS benefits to staff and say they have gone for over 5 years without those benefits.

After their strike action ,Some health workers reportedly stormed the Ministry of Public Health office to lay their complaints.

They stated that the strike action will last for 5 hours everyday (from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.) till a solution is provided to their 17 complaints listed.

Source: Cameroon News Agency