Nurses underneath the umbrella of the Nationwide Affiliation of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, have protested towards the administration of the Federal Medical Centre, Idi Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State, over what they name horrible working circumstances.
The well being staff, throughout their protest on Wednesday, mentioned their members collapsed on duties over work overload and because of an unconducive work surroundings.
The nurses protested towards a scarcity of manpower and an alleged exclusion from the 2023 promotion carried out within the establishment.
Throughout their peaceable procession on the hospital premises, they insisted that stiffer actions can be taken if nothing was carried out to alleviate their many sufferings.
The aggrieved staff, singing solidarity songs, brandished placards bearing completely different messages reminiscent of “Cease Selective Promotion,” “Nurses Workload is Sufficient for Promotion,” and “Nurses’ Lives Matter,” amongst others.
Arogidigba World Journal remembers that the Nationwide President of NANNM, Michael Nnachi, just lately lamented the lack of over 75,000 of their members to the surface world because of poor wages and an indecent working surroundings within the nation.
Talking for the protesters, the chairman of the FMC Abeokuta chapter of NANNM, Olufimilola Adekunle, mentioned greater than 200 nurses within the hospital have relocated overseas.
She added that lower than 300 nurses are left within the establishment to deal with lots of of sufferers visiting the hospital each day.
Adekunle lamented that the nurses are exhausted and overworked as a result of acute manpower scarcity within the hospital.
“It’s actually robust to outlive; we needed to collapse three items collectively. We’re going to merge some wards collectively; that’s what we’re planning on doing instantly after this protest as a result of we can not bear it any longer.
“We would like the federal government to come back to our help; we’re working and we have to be paid for what we do. All our rights ought to be given to us. Our subsequent motion is to down instruments. We’re going to write them and cease working as a result of, up to now months, now we have seen our nurses collapsing.
“Previously two months, we misplaced two nurses. Our lives are essential. The workload contributed to the deaths and our nurses collapsing on responsibility. The one factor we take pleasure in from the administration is that this promotion; we don’t profit from them,” she mentioned.
Reacting to the protest, the Head of Medical Companies of the hospital, Dr Kunle Adediran, informed Arogidigba World Journal that the problem relating to the promotion was past the administration. The promotion of nurses, he mentioned, depends on the dictates of the Federal Ministry of Well being.
He, nonetheless, promised that the hospital would write to the Federal Authorities about developments on the hospital.
“We’re all staff of the Federal Authorities and all that we do needs to be carried out in compliance with the directives of the federal government. It isn’t fully as much as the administration,” he mentioned.