Handle our calls for with utmost urgency or danger industrial motion, nurses, midwives inform FG

THE Nationwide Affiliation of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has appealed to the Federal Authorities to handle all of the calls for of the affiliation with utmost urgency.

Nationwide President of the affiliation, Michael Nnachi, made the attraction at a information convention after its assembly with officers of the Federal Ministry of Well being and Social Welfare in Abuja on Friday.

Nnachi mentioned that it grew to become mandatory for the Federal Authorities to look into the calls for of NANNM with utmost urgency to avert industrial disaster.

He listed among the urgent wants of the affiliation as re-opening of nurses and midwives certificates verification portal, cost of salaries of all workers of Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.

Others are the structure of the board, creation of particular nurses wage construction and rapid overview of nurses’ peculiar skilled allowances.

He appealed to the Federal Authorities to handle the calls for earlier than the expiration of the 15 days ultimatum issued in the course of the affiliation’s Nationwide Government Council (NEC) assembly in August.

He mentioned that assembly all of the calls for would cushion the consequences of excruciating socio-economic hardship, in addition to cut back mind drain within the nursing sector.

Nnachi additionally referred to as on the Federal Authorities to create a full-fledged division of nursing companies on the Federal Ministry of Well being.

He mentioned that gazetting the nurses scheme of companies as authorised in 2016 was additionally essential.

“We additionally attraction for an NANNM illustration on the board degree of tertiary well being establishments. We appealed for provision of practical gear at numerous well being amenities, centralisation of internship posting for graduate nurses and employment of nursing personnel,” he mentioned.

He additionally appealed for consultancy for members of West African Postgraduate Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery and different welfare packages for nurses and midwives.