The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives Ekiti State Council has vowed to sue a Non Governmental Organization, the Civil Society in Malaria Control Immunization and Nutrition over a false allegation that some nurses have been playing truancy at health centres.
In a statement in Ado Ekiti, Chairman of the association, Mr Kunle Oni described such statement as indicting and a clear indication that the leader of the NGO, Sir Olu Ogunrotimi and his team does not understand the workings of the health care centres.
Comrade Oni noted that out of about four thousand health workers such as (Doctors, Nurses, CHOs, CHEWs, Pharmacy Technicians, Medical Lab Technician, Medical Record Officers, Nutrition Officers, Dental Technicians and Health Assistants working in the over 200 PHCs, there are just 68 Nurses wondering how Sir Olu Ogunrotimi arrived at such incirrect conclusion.
He said the union would have expected the NGO to call the attention of government to the fact that nurses were overworked due to brain drain as well as lack of necessary working tools in hospitals rather than publishing an indicting statement.
Comrade Oni noted that it was obvious that Sir Ogunrotimi and his team did not carry out due diligence in their fact finding mission and may have mistaken every health worker in the hospital as nurse.
The NANNM Chairman noted that such false statement have affected the psychology and morale of the nurses who have hitherto defiled all odds to give their best for the service of the state despite the failure of goverment to pay them full CONHESS salary and harzard allowance.
He however asked Sir Ogunrotimi and his team to make a public apology to the nurses within seven days or face the libellous charges.