Nurses and midwives in Oyo State on Wednesday insisted that their ongoing strike would not be called off until their demands were met by the state government. Samuel Adeyemi, chairman of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan, said there was no going back on the industrial action. NAN reports that the nurses and midwives in the state government-owned hospitals and health centres began an indefinite strike on 21 May.
NAN also reports that the industrial action has been taking its toll on patients, who throng the hospitals without nurses and midwives to attend to them. NANNM’s demands include urgent mass recruitment of nurses and midwives and correction of the wrong notional date on the promotion letters of members who were due in 2017/2018. National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) [Photo Credit: PM News] The association is also demanding payment of withheld 2011 salary arrears, which, according to it, had been paid to other workers.
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