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By Amah<\/p>\n
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An X user, simply identified as Dr Olufunmilayo has alleged that the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, NMCN, is no longer\u00a0 verifyung the licenses of Nigerian nurses who want to seek greener pastures abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n Olufunmilayo a post shared on her X account, alleged that\u00a0 many nurses, who have secured employment abroad could not take up the offers as that was precedent on the council verifying their results.<\/span><\/p>\n In the absence of that, the nurses cannot relocate and work outside the country.<\/span><\/p>\n The post read: \u201cI want to raise an alarm about a horrible injustice being carried out against Nigerian nurses. Many of them don\u2019t have the voice, the reach, or the platform for their pain to be heard or seen so I will gladly do it for them.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0“The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) is refusing indefinitely to verify licenses for any nurse who plans and wants to travel abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n The license verification is a mandatory requirement for any nurse who trained in Nigeria to relocate abroad to work as a nurse.<\/span><\/p>\n The decision by the NMCN means:<\/span><\/p>\n “The answer to underpaid, overworked and unfulfilled health workers is NOT to hold them hostage in a system and a country they no longer want to be in. We need to address the issues, pay them better, make work more fulfilling and build a country that professionals are happy to live in.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0“The government is full of lunatic retards. There is no other explanation beyond this. Otherwise, they should know that the only people who suffer this draconian decision by the NMCN are the patients and the populace at hand.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0“When you force nurses, or any other professionals, to work against their wishes, what kind of care do you think the patients will get? Do you want patients to be treated by nurses who have mentally logged out of the system, who no longer wish to be in the country and who are being professionally held hostage against their will?<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0“If this is not clear madness from the NMCN, then please tell me how else you define and explain insanity. It\u2019s an absolute disgrace and distasteful shame that rather than engage the nurses in a productive process that addresses their concerns and offers them juicy packages that discourage them from leaving, the NMCN is choosing the shameful path of professional hostage-taking.<\/span><\/p>\n “Tomorrow, when someone goes to a general hospital, and they see a nurse who is morose, irritable, upset and uncaring; you will wonder why. But you will never know that is a healthcare professional who is forced against her wishes to work in a system she no longer wants to be part of.<\/span><\/p>\n “And don\u2019t get me wrong. I\u2019m not saying I want all nurses to leave the country. I\u2019m only saying the solution to the problem of nurses leaving is to specifically address the reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n “What I\u2019m saying very emphatically is that the answer is NOT to simply place a technical ban on their escape and forcefully make them attend to patients who will only most likely be the ones to suffer potential half-hearted treatment from a nurse who is completely fed up of the entire system but has been tied down and forced to work.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0“What I\u2019m saying is not a joke. Canada has confirmed it. Saudi Arabia has confirmed it. Texas\/USA has also confirmed it.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0“Today it is the nurses being held hostage. It could be doctors tomorrow. Or dentists. Or pharmacists. Or dietitians. Or opticians. Or optometrists. Or engineers. Or physiotherapists.<\/span><\/p>\n “It could literally be anybody. It could be you. Please kindly lend your voice. Please let\u2019s speak up for these nurses.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Amah Kindly share: An X user, simply identified as Dr Olufunmilayo has alleged that the Nursing and Midwifery Council…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[520],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nigerian-nursing-and-midwifery-council-of-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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Explaining why relocating abroad has become attractive to the nurses, Olufunmilayo said: “Nigerian nurses are overworked, underpaid, overused, under-appreciated and unfulfilled with their work in Nigeria. This is why they want to leave Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n