The Nationwide Affiliation of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives on Tuesday mentioned it would cease at nothing to make sure that the issues raised by its members are correctly and promptly addressed.
Nurses underneath the aegis of NANNM on Monday protested on the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria’s places of work in Abuja and Lagos, respectively, to specific their displeasure over what they described as an try and hinder their freedom to pursue profession alternatives, asking the council to handle nurses’ welfare, wage scale, scarcity of workers, and different rights.
NMCN, in its revised certificates verification pointers, acknowledged that candidates looking for verification of certificates from international nursing boards and councils should possess two years of post-qualification expertise from the date of issuance of the everlasting working towards license.
NANNM is the umbrella physique {of professional} nurses and midwives who’re educated, registered, and licensed to observe the nursing occupation in any respect the degrees of healthcare supply system within the nation.
In the meantime, a round issued by NANNM titled “Re: Revised pointers for verification of certificates(s), dated February 13, 2024, acknowledged that it’s conscious of complaints from the members of the affiliation.
The round signed by the Common Secretary of NANNM, Thomas Ahmed Shettima, was addressed to the state secretaries/PROs of the affiliation, NANNM state councils and FCT Abuja, NANNM Secretaries, and NANNM specialty teams.
The round partly learn, “The eye of the Nationwide Secretariat of NANNM has been drawn to the current round issued by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria with ref No: NMCN/SG/RO/MH/14/VOL.1/40 and dated February seventh, 2024.
“The Secretariat can be in receipt of letters of complaints from Some State Councils of the Affiliation in opposition to sure provisions of the revised pointers.
Arising from the foregoing the Nationwide management of NANNM had engaged the Registrar/CEO of the NMCN on a collection of conferences on February twelfth, 2024, and is in session with related Authorities companies on the subject material.
“We wish to guarantee all our members nationwide and certainly the whole Nigeria Nurses and Midwives that the Affiliation (NANNM) will cease at nothing in guaranteeing that the issues raised are correctly and promptly addressed. It ought to be famous that presently, the Board of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria like most Statutory Boards have been dissolved by the Federal Authorities.”
It, nevertheless, mentioned it’s believed that every one related companies of presidency concerned with the matter will tackle and resolve many of the points and issues of the nurses earlier than the implementation of the revised pointers on March 1, 2024.
“Whereas we recognize the dedication of the Nigerian Nurses to the promotion and upkeep of excellence in Nursing coaching, observe, verifications, and respect for the dignity of labour of nurses in Nigeria with the perfect international observe, we urge you to stay calm and be within the state of indestructible vigilance.
“Lastly, we wish you to guarantee our members of the affiliation’s dedication to all the time act of their greatest curiosity,” it added.