Ogun Nurses Say Staff Situation In Public Hospitals Critical And Worrisome
Ogun Nurses Say Staff Situation In Public Hospitals Critical And Worrisome

Ogun Nurses Say Staff Situation In Public Hospitals Critical And Worrisome

Ogun Nurses Say Staff Situation In Public Hospitals Critical And Worrisome

Nurses in both Federal and State Government hospitals in Ogun State, have alerted that situation in the state’s public hospitals is critical and worrisome. They said the state public hospitals, especially, had lost 900 nurses, mostly to migration.

The situation, according to the chairperson of the state wing of the National Nurses and Midwives Association, Mrs. Roseline Solarin, is the same in private hospitals operating in the state.

She said despite the massive migration of nurses, resignation and deaths of nurses in the state, the last time the state government embarked on an aggressive recruitment of nurses was in 2007.

Solarin, speaking while appearing on a Rockcity FM programme ‘Daybreak Show’ on Thursday, said there were only 184 nurses now in 448 primary health care centres in the state’s 20 local government area.

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She added that 662 out of 1,700 nurses in Ogun State General Hospitals have quit, while Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, now has less than 305 out of its 400 nurses.

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At the Neuro Psychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Solarin said the ECOWAS reference Centre for Mental Health, now has less than 300 nurses, while BABCOK University Teaching Hospital has lost 170 nurses to migration.

The chairman of Nurses and Midwives Association also revealed that Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital now has 283 nurses left after migration of others from the hospital.

She explained that the situation has increased the workload of the existing nurses in public hospital, causing stress among the nurses.

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