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LUTH Nurses Declare Strike over Obsolete Equipment, Introduction of Bi-shift by Idowu Olabode : On Friday, 10th June, 2016 at 01:00:43 PM
Nurses under the employment of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital down tools to protest obsolete equipment and other issues bothering on their welfare. This is coming after a Congress which was attended by nurses,SEC and SAC members within and outside the hospital to deliberate on the line of action. Comrade Awojide, the Lagos State Chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives Lagos chapter declared that an industrial action should commence immediately in order to press home the nurses demands.



The greviances of the nurses made available include:

Last year promotion exercise result where 71 nurses were denied promotion from CONHESS 12 - 13 (ACNO - CNO) using BNSC as a yardstick for promotion, which nurses claimed negates the scheme of service for nurses in Nigeria. According to them, the management of the institution deliberate took this decision is to stagnate Nurses on CONHESS 12 which negates the judgement of the National Industrial Court on non-skipping as conveyed by the circular with reference No HCSF/EPO/EIR/637551/TI/192 dated 4th November 2013



Other issues cited by the nurses include:

- Change of LUTH Nurses nomenclature: Nurses with BNSC Nursing were promoted from CONHESS 12 - 13 and designated as Assistant director in Nursing service (ADNS) instead of ChieF Nursing Officer (CNO), Which is contradictory to what was done in other Federal Health Institutions in Nigeria

- Non-payment of salaries of newly employed Nurses fora whole year

- Lack of consumables e.g. dressing materials, lotion, gloves, syringes and needle

- Inadequate/obsolete equipments

- Inadequate man power

- Irregular water and power supply

- Non-payment of teaching allowance

- Poor staff welfare

- Non-payment of 2013, 2014, 2015 promotion arrears

- Non-payment of 2010 uniform allowance/balance of 2015 uniform allowance

- Stagnation of Nurses

- Introduction of Bi-shift for Nurses

- Employment of contract staff (Nurses)

I hope the so called government is ready to provide all resources to deliver the health care because it is the healthcare provider who knows where it pinches or hurts when you cannot save live just because there is no facility.