There is growing disenchantment and grumbling among the entire Nurses of National Hospital Abuja over the refusal of the hospital management to promotes nurses who wrote the 2018 promotion examination organize by the hospital.

Information gathered reveal that Patricia Ete (former speaker of the HOR whose was impeached on corruption charges), the current board chairman of the hospital categorically addressed the Nurses during their promotion exams that was held in the month October, 2018 that only few nurses would be promoted irrespective of the performance as a result preempting the hospital management's decision.

It is important to Note that under Patricia Ete's leadership as the chairman of the hospital board the hospital lack basic supplies like hand gloves, face masks and other basic hospital consumables to aid hospital staff in carrying out their duty. Meanwhile, the hundreds of millions generated by the hospital daily are constantly being siphoned as the hospital management and its board appear to be operating in a harmonious relationship as a result of the financial collusion that exist between both.

While the mass failure of Nurses that sat in the promotion exams has caused outrage amongst the staff of the hospital, the moral of the affected persons has been badly affected almost all that sat for the exams were failed.

Meanwhile, the real reason behind the mass failure of the Nurses is as a result of the management of the hospital intention not to incure the financial burden of paying promotion allowance. Suffice it to mention that such monies the management is refusing to pay has been budgeted for in the 2018 budget under the presidency/Federal Ministry of Health.

As a result diversions of such monies allotted for maintenance of the hospital and the welfare of the personel of the hospital is constantly being embezzled by the hospital management

As a matter of urgent national importance, the Minister of health should
* Review the financial spendings of the management and board of national hospital, Abuja
* set up an independent board to review the result of the recent (2018) promotion exams for nurses
* ensure consumables (working kits) for hospital uses are readily available.
* probe into the activities of the hospital management board as the fraudulently extend the tenure of the current hospital management for pecuniary reasons


NB: National Hospital Abuja is directly under the Presidency. The bad image the current management portray the hospital due to lack of basic working tools, unavailability of drugs in the NHIS section and constant siphoning of funds portray the federal government in a bad image especially as it claim to be fighting corruption.