Nurses, on the platform of National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, Lagos State chapter, have declared a three-day warning strike which would commence from Monday, January 10, to press home demands for better working conditions from the Lagos State government.
Making the declaration at an emergency Congress in Lagos on Friday, Chairman of the State chapter, Julius Awojide, lamented at what he described as “government’s insensitivity to the plight of nurses in the State”.
Awojide said the strike was to let the government know that nurses would no longer be overworked, undervalued and underpaid without consequence.
The NANNM chairman said the State Executive Council meeting held on December 29, 2021, took recognizance of numerous challenges of nurses and all the unresolved issues before the government.
He said the issues continue to cause suffering of their members, and inevitably the public.
“The Council decided to embark on the warning strike after careful consideration to call attention of government to the severity of the situation and to get them to address the issues promptly.
“We engaged government on several occasions on the issues without the desired pace of outcome.
“In our estimation, the Lagos government is yet to fully come to terms with how incredibly challenging the situation in the health sector has been for our members, especially in the last two years,” he noted.
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