The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, NMCN, says over 15,000 nurses and midwives left the country in 2023 to seek greener pastures in foreign countries.
Faruk Abubakar, the Recorder of NMCN, unveiled this on Stations TV’s Morning Brief show while talking on the contention encompassing the reexamined rules for declaration confirmation for medical attendants.
PROPOLITISNG reviews that medical caretakers arranged fights at the NMCN’s workplaces in Abuja and Lagos to communicate their disappointment over what they portrayed as an endeavor to ruin their opportunity to seek after vocation open doors.
This comes after the Gathering as of late changed rules, expressing that candidates looking for confirmation of authentications from unfamiliar nursing sheets and boards should have two years of post-capability experience from the date of the extremely durable rehearsing permit issuance.
In the interim, Abubakar, legitimizing the reconsidered rules for medical attendants’ confirmation, said the quantity of attendants leaving the nation is expanding yearly.
“42,000 medical attendants left the country over the most recent three years. Last year alone, it was more than 15,000; the number is expanding yearly,” he said.
At the point when asked what the Committee is doing to safeguard and work on the government assistance of the medical caretakers, he said the Administrative Service of Wellbeing is pursuing further developing the medical attendants working circumstances, recompenses, and pay rates.
“The FMoH and the Clergyman of State (for Wellbeing) are striving to guarantee a favorable work space, giving condition of-craftsmanship hardware and instruments to assist them with giving quality consideration to Nigerians.
“Furthermore, I need to guarantee (you) that inside two or three months, a ton has been coordinated and given in 2024 that will work on the government assistance of the medical caretakers we are discussing. While discussing the compensation they are discussing, I believe it’s an overall peculiarity, and I trust it’s something overall.
“There is a great deal of progress proceeding to survey the compensation, and medical caretakers are likewise remembered for that strategy. I believe it’s an overall peculiarity; any remaining areas are likewise whining, and the public authority is doing a great deal,” he expressed.
