In response to unmet demands regarding salary, allowances, staffing shortages, and unsafe working conditions, Nurses, under the umbrella of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Federal Health Institutions Sector, NANNM-FHI, have insisted that their planned seven-day warning strike will begin today.
The members vowed to complete the strike even if the government called for negotiations. Speaking in an interview with Newsmen, the National Chairman of NANNM-FHI, Mr. Morakinyo Rilwan, said the government had fifteen days to respond to their demands but failed to act.
The union, had earlier, issued a fifteen-day ultimatum to the Federal Government, demanding immediate intervention to prevent a total healthcare shutdown. Some of the demands of the nurses include, the upward review of shift allowance, uniform allowance adjustment, a separate salary structure for nurses, increased core duty allowance, mass employment of nurses and the establishment of a nursing department in the Federal Ministry of Health, among others.
Writing by Iyeh Enema