The grouse of the nurses and midwives is that the state has over 1500 nurses and midwives who have already graduated from nursing and midwifery schools and waiting for employment by the state government. But rather than employing the ready-made health workers on ground, the ministry is selling forms for the training of community nurses and midwives, a development which nurses in the state frown at....Read more...http://emeraldng.com/investigation-delta-health-commissioner-nurses-in-heavy-warfare-over-training-of-community-nurses-midwives-read-the-nauseating-revelations/

The health sector in the Delta State to the best of my knowledge is grossly understaffed. Can you imagine that the matrons at times do the work of the health assistants? I'm not saying nurses but matrons, I mean carry out assignment meant for health assistants.