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Nurses under the umbrella of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, have protested against the management of the Federal Medical Centre, Idi Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State, over what they call terrible working conditions.
The health workers, during their protest on Wednesday, said their members collapsed on duties over work overload and due to an unconducive work environment.
The nurses protested against a shortage of manpower and an alleged exclusion from the 2023 promotion carried out in the institution.
During their peaceful procession on the hospital premises, they insisted that stiffer actions would be taken if nothing was done to alleviate their many sufferings.
The aggrieved workers, singing solidarity songs, brandished placards bearing different messages such as “Stop Selective Promotion,” “Nurses Workload is Enough for Promotion,” and “Nurses’ Lives Matter,” among others.
recalls that the National President of NANNM, Michael Nnachi, recently lamented the loss of over 75,000 of their members to the outside world due to poor wages and an indecent working environment in the country.
Speaking for the protesters, the chairman of the FMC Abeokuta chapter of NANNM, Olufimilola Adekunle, said more than 200 nurses in the hospital have relocated abroad.
She added that less than 300 nurses are left in the institution to take care of hundreds of patients visiting the hospital daily.
Adekunle lamented that the nurses are exhausted and overworked due to the acute manpower shortage in the hospital