Patients Recount Ordeals As Nurses’ Strike Enters Day 2 In Kogi

Patients in medical facilities across Kogi State have continue to lament the negative consequences of the ongoing 7-day warning strike embarked upon by the nurses.

A patient at the Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH), Lokoja narrated that health seekers at the facility were left without attention.

“You can see our condition here. We are suffering. No nurse to attend to our needs. The nurses are the ones who are close to us the patients. Their strike has put our lives in danger.

“I’m appealing to the federal government to urgently resolve the issues that have brought about the strike. We are suffering,” he pleaded.

Another patient who simply identified herself as Mama Titi, appealed to the nurses to consider the plights of the patients. “We are suffering here,” she lamented.

The Kogi State chapter Secretary of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Machoko Ribanre Moses said that the federal government has taken the medical workers for granted for too long, vowing that the strike will continue until their demands were met.

Speaking on the compliance with the 7-day warning strike, Machoko said that the machinery put in place to monitor obedience across the state was achieving the desired results.

“I’m in touch with all our branch officials. So, information from our members from across the state indicated that the day two of the strike was even more successful than day one,” Machoko said.