Nurses and midwives in Oyo State on Thursday renewed their decision to continue with their industrial action, vowing that the ongoing strike would not be called off until their demands were met by the state government.
In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ibadan, the state capital, the Chairman, National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, Dr. Samuel Adeyemi said there was no going back on the industrial action.
NAN reports 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 throng the hospitals with no nurses and midwives to attend to them.
Africa Health Report gathered that the demands by the striking nurses and midwives 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.
