The National
Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANSM, Federal Health
institutions' sector has alerted its members to be at alert and await
further directives as the Association is set to embark on a nationwide
strike action over unpaid allowances.
The Association
which is determined to ground services in the nation's health sector
accused some Chief Medical Directors and Medical Directors, whom they
say deliberately refuse to pay uniform allowances to nurses and midwives
"against the provision of the Civil Service Rule No. 130127."
In a communiqué
issued at the end of its 30th Annual Scientific Conference, signed by
its National Chairman, Mr. Nana Takai and National Secretary, Mr. Gambo
Danfulani and made available to journalists in Jos, the duo also asked
President Muhammadu Buhari to declare an emergency in the health sector,
especially in areas of staffing, training, retraining and equipping
health institutions with modern facilities.
They further
accused Chief Executives and Heads of Federal Health institutions of
"conspiring with IPPIS Office to unlawfully withhold the payment of
teaching allowances of some category of nurses against extant circulars
to that effect."
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