Nigeria, July 1 -- About a week after the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) suspended its nationwide strike, another key organ of Nigeria's health workforce is threatening to down tools.

The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) said it would be left with no other option but to embark on a nationwide industrial action if the government fails to amend what it described as "gross discrimination" against its members in the implementation of the newly approved inducement and hazard allowances for medical workers.

The association is also protesting among other issues, the alleged withheld salaries of its members.

Hazard pay, a wage supplement paid to workers who do dangerous jobs, has been the grouse of Nigerian health workers s...