Nigerian nurses are terribly underpaid and heavily overworked. Many of them barely make 150,000 naira a month. That is barely £75 an entire month.
These are people with children, relatives, wives and husbands who they have to care for. They have to pay rent, pay school fees and pay bills from these peanuts they earn. This is why many of them are leaving Nigeria.
The nursing council has stopped verifying their licenses which means it is now impossible for any one of them to leave the country to chase greener pastures elsewhere.
Govt is not ready to pay them better.
Govt is stopping them to travel abroad.
Pay them well, you say no. Let them leave the country, you still say no.
We must all lend our voices and speak up for the nurses. It is the nurses today, who will it be next? Doctors? Lab scientists? Dentists? Radiographers? Pharmacists? Accountants? Engineers?
Remember this quote:
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
—Martin Niemöller”
Please speak up for nigerian nurses today. Don’t wait for when it will be your turn because it will be too late by then.
Lend your voice. Use the hashtag.
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#EndTheNursingLicenseVerificationSuspensionInNigeria
Doctors must approve you as a Nurse before you travel out of the country like wtf @NMC_Nigeria are you guys normal at all.
In other words, we are not a professional body, but a subordinate organization.
So Nursing council just went and the minister of health vomited this nonsense and gave to him and he brought it out for we nurses to take it hook line and sinker. NMCN if you can’t use your head we the younger nurses can use them for you. We reject this memo we are not taking it
#notonmcnverificationrule
License verification has absolutely nothing to do with your years of experience…
It’s simply to verify that
“This Nurse has completed nursing training in an accredited university /School of nursing and hold a valid practicing license” simple!
2years work experience before issuing a verification certificate is unclear… so it’s very obvious there’s more to this… therefore we are definitely not settling for this BS!
NMCN we need a revisit! Your board meetings should be FOR NURSES!!! not AGAINST NURSES!!!!
#NMCN #Nmcnverification
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