Hundreds of Nigerian nurses are stranded following the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, NMCN, continuous closure of its portal for verification of nurses' certificates. It was gathered that while many nurses are currently stranded in different countries abroad, others are on the verge of being deported.
Hundreds of Nigerian nurses are stranded following the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria,
is a letter dated 13th August 2024, titled “Negative Portrayal of the House’s Resolution” and signed by the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr. Sani Magaji Tambuwal, to the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. The letter came after Hon. Patrick Umoh had raised a motion of urgent national importance on the need to safeguard institutional integrity and address any misinterpretation of the previous House’s Resolution by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.
expressed worry that over 42,000 nurses left the country in the last three years to seek greener pastures in foreign countries. According to the council, over 15,000 nurses left Nigeria in 2023 alone. , Dr. Faruk Umar Abubakar, was sent to the Commissioners/Secretary of Health Services; Chief Medical Directors/ Medical Directors; National President; Directors of Nursing Services; Heads of Department; Provosts & Principals; Coordinators; Zonal Officers; All States Ministry of Health & Federal Capital Territory, Abuja; University Teaching Hospitals/Specialist & Federal Medical Centre and National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, National Headquarters, Abuja.
’s offices in Abuja and Lagos to express their dissatisfaction. They also threatened a nationwide strike, describing the new guidelines as an effort to hamper their freedom. Meanwhile, some others took to social networks to protest against the policy. A group of nurses also took legal action against the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria and the Minister of Health, among others, challenging the recent revisions to certificate verification guidelines.
claimed that it was the National Assembly that told them to shut the portal, which was the controversy, but the lawmakers wrote back to the council saying that wasn't their resolution. “The lawmakers wrote clarifying that they asked didn't come up as an organization to fight for us. And by the time we went to court, just like the 'Nigerian system', they kept adjourning the case. 'Another group also went to the
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