The National Association Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Federal Health Institution (NANNM-FHI) sector, has decried the exclusion of its members from the recent 40 per cent pay rise for federal workers.
In a statement issued by the National Chairman, Mr Morakinyo-Olajide Rilwan, to the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday, the association expressed its displeasure towards the situation.
Rilwan said the attention of nurses and midwives in FHI of Nigeria had been drawn to the commencement of 40 per cent peculiar allowance pay rise for workers in the Federal Government establishment with outright exclusions of its members.
He said that nurses and other health workers had been calling for salary adjustment since 2016, with several committees set up to this effect and the committees were yet to see the light of the day with their report.
He recalled that the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, had earlier said before the payment that the pay rise was to justify the current economic reality of the country.
He said the federal government had no justification for excluding some sections of civil servants, especially in the health sector from the pay rise since everyone, including the workers, patronise the same market and pay same bills.
He said the action was also coming when there was mass exodus of nurses and midwives out of the country for greener pastures with aftermath effect of increase workload on the few nurses on ground.
Rilwan said, “Instead of motivating those health workers, who have agreed to stay in the country to salvage the health system by this pay rise, the best thing government could do was to exclude nurses.
“The last time Consolidated Health Salary Scale (CONHESS) was adjusted was in 2010 and most of the allowances due to nurses were being short paid, for instance 30 per cent shift allowance with less than 10 per cent being paid to nurses.
“Many things are causing agitation, including Nurses Special Salary Structure.
“However, we are just getting the news this weekend and we are studying the situation while consultation with relevant stakeholders is ongoing, especially our parent body. But the fact is that our members are not happy with the exclusion and we cannot continue keeping quiet.
“Nurses have suffered enough neglect and deprivation as front line workers in health sector,” he said.
Chioma Kalu
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