The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, FETHI, has said the management of the facility do not compromise Patients wellbeing, thereby dissociated the union from the on-going industrial action embarked upon by JOHESU workers’ in the hospital.
The Chairperson of NANNM, FETHI branch, Mrs Ajayi Folaranmi Bamitale, who gave the clarification while speaking with selected journalists in her office on Friday, hinted that workers’ unions under the Joint Health Workers’ Unions, JOHESU, in the hospital are on strike but members of her union are working.
According to her,”JOHESU is actually on strike, but the nurses are not on strike. The nurses are currently working and are willing to work. We are seeing our patients as expected without any hitch. We were once members of JOHESU, but right now we have pulled out of JOHESU nationally”.
A visit to the various wards shown nurses and doctors were on duty attending to patients without stress.
Mrs Bamitale appealed to out-patients and other categories of people who are for one treatment or another not to hesitate to come to the hospital, stressing that the atmosphere is conducive and nurses are on ground to attend to them. “They should not feel that the hospital is not working.
Reacting to the ongoing strike, the Director, Nursing Services, Mrs Grace Olajide appealed to the striking workers to sheathe their swords in the interest of the patients and others who want to access treatment at the hospital.
She advised the unions to seek amicable resolution of whatever might have caused the industrial action. She however added that though the hospital was partially paralyzed, but doctors and nurses are working. ” Patients are in their wards receiving treatment, and facilities to ensure that services are not crippled are functioning”
Recall that Precise news had earlier reported that Patients were not properly attended to due to the ongoing JOHESU Nation wide strike.