Relatives Evacuate Patients As Nurses’ Strike Paralyse Medical Services In Kwara

Medical services were on Wednesday grounded at both the federal and state hospitals in Kwara State, following the seven-day warning strike declared by the national secretariat of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNMS).

LEADERSHIP’s findings showed that nurses at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Sobi Specialist Hospital, Alagbado; and General Hospital, Ilorin complied fully with the directive of the union.

Our Correspondent gathered that patients on admission in the hospitals were being moved out by their relatives to seek further medical care at private facilities or their different homes.

“The patients are being moved out of the hospital by their relatives since the nurses who will administer injections and drugs on the patients have embarked on a strike action this morning (Wednesday),” a senior staff at one of the hospitals told our correspondent.

Another senior staff at a General Hospital in the state who pleaded anonymity said, “Yes, the nurses in our hospital have commenced an industrial action. They had no choice since the directive was from the national secretariat of their association.”