No Going Back On Strike, Say Oyo Nurses, Midwives

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.

In an interview, the Chairman, National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Dr. Samuel Adeyemi said there was no going back on the industrial action.

It is reported that the nurses and midwives in the state government-owned hospitals and health centres began an indefinite strike on May 21, 2024.

The industrial action has been taking its toll on the patients who daily visit the hospitals with no nurses and midwives to attend to them.

The demands by the NANNM 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.

Others are the adoption and implementation of lateral conversion or career progression for the nurses, as it is in other states of the Federation.

The association is also demanding the payment of withheld 2011 salary arrears which, according to it, had been paid to other workers.