“This should call for greater concern from both the government and other stakeholders,” the NANNM president stated.
The striking nurses threaten to give the FG 21-day ultimatum after the expiration of the current protest before an indefinite strike.
Mr Olaniran noted that nurses were the least paid among the clinical practitioners despite having members with the best certificates.
Ms Faminu, who expressed concern about the patients, said it was not nurses’ intention to abandon them.
He stated that nurses and midwives could no longer endure the financial and professional neglect that had characterised their relationship with the government.
Mr Mamman made this commitment during Tuesday’s opening of the association’s NEC meeting in Abuja.
The strike took its toll on the patients who throng the hospitals daily with no nurses and midwives to attend to them.
The seven-day warning strike by medical and health workers in Oyo has paralysed hospital activities across the state.
“To worsen the situation, most of the time in the night, we resort to the use of a torch to administer drugs and dress the wounds of patients,” the nurse said.
Olurotimi Awojide, Lagos State chairman, NANNM, made the appeal during the association’s annual scientific conference on Wednesday in Lagos.
