Ondo nurses protest alleged unprofessional handling of COVID-19 cases by govt, NCDC
According to the State Chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives , Comrade Kehinde Nomiye and Mrs Tayo Imorua who is also a union leader, the protest was sparked by the failure of the state government and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, to carry out contact tracing of an infected doctor and nurse at the mother and child hospital.
The union leaders disclosed that contact tracing had yet to commence on the cases which were detected more than 98 hours ago.They stated that with the development, nurses and patients at the hospital are now at risk of the deadly disease. While giving the state government 48 hours to yield to their demands, they threatened to withdraw their services from the ward.
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