Nurses under the aegis of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), operating at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State, started a demonstration on Wednesday.
Their presentation protested extreme working conditions, lack of personnel, and their supposed exemption from the 2023 promo performed by the health organization, among others.
Revealing their annoyance, the aggrieved protesters brought placards that had engravings such as: “Stop selective promo”; “Nurses work suffices for promo”; “Nurses’ lives matter”; “Give us our promo”; “Healthy work environment, recovery areas, nurses require both”, to name a few.
Speaking with Punch throughout the demonstration, the chairman of NANNM, Olufimilola Adekunle, required that the health center management present the documents of the advertising evaluation, which the healthcare facility declared the nurses stopped working.
The NANNM chairman stated, “We are worn out, we are truly tired. Before, we utilized to do 3 shifts however since of the lack, we need to collapse it to 2 shifts.
“We have actually composed to the management numerous times for compensation for this long hours work we are doing however no action.
“The only thing we took pleasure in from this management is this promo and now our members were not recipients. They stated we stopped working; we wish to see the script,” she included.
Responding to the claims, the head of medical services of the healthcare facility, Kunle Adediran, stated the choice about the promo was taken by the federal ministry of health and not the medical facility management.
Mr Adeniran, nevertheless, guaranteed that the health center would send out a letter to the federal government to examine a few of the choices and likewise address other issues raised by the nurses.
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