The declaration is contained in a press statement signed by Fatima Sanda Usara, NAHCON’s Assistant Director, Public Affairs, on Friday.
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This was contained in a statement jointly signed by Aminu Shehu, Chairman and Markus Luka, Secretary of the Kwara State Council of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, in Ilorin.
The Chairman of the State chapter, Comrade Julius Awojide, made the statement at an emergency congress in Lagos on Saturday, January 8, 2022, he lamented the reported government insensitivity to the plight of nurses in the state.
Bello said this would improve patient care and nurses’ assigned responsibilities.
The chairman of NANNM in JUTH, Mercy Lenka, made the plea in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria at the hospital premises on Wednesday.
The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Kwara Chapter, has drawn the attention of the state government to the plight of its members, saying they are under pressure and poorly renumerated.
The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives Federal Health Institutions Sector, has urged nurses to go into entrepreneurship in order to bridge the unemployment gap bedeviling the profession.
Vice President, Constantino Chiwenga, accused the nurses of staging a “politically motivated” walkout and said they would be replaced by retired and unemployed staff.
Ambode, who was represented by his Deputy, Dr Idiat Adebule, gave the advice at the 10th Annual Nurses Scientific Conference held by the State Health Service Commission in Lagos.
In reaction to the recent death of doctors and nurses due to Lassa fever in Ebonyi, the association described as worrisome the attitude of successive governments to the development of the nation’s health care system.
It said the strike was to agitate for the correction of the use of a dual scheme of service for nurses