scarcity of nurses hit Lagos hospitals

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Firstclass Newsline gathered that Mrs. Olatunde Olusola, the chairman
of the National Association of Nurses and Mid-wife, Lagos State
Council who revealed this to Firstclass newsline in an interview added
that if this development isn't addressed, the dearth of nurses in the
state owned hospitals will become worst.
Olusola lamented that the acute shortage in manpower is affecting the
healthcare delivery in the state, saying "We form the largest party of
the healthcare delivery in the country and that was why in any
hospital without nurses and mid-wife, there will be no service; It has
portrayed the nurses in the state owned hospitals in bad light."
According to her, "More so, the government has increased the number of
Primary Healthcare Centres, PHCs and Maternal and Child Healthcare
Center, MCC in the state without employing the required number of
nurses to deliver the required service.
"Rather than employ, the government will remove nurses from the
shortage areas leaving healthcare delivery to suffer. This is actually
affecting healthcare delivery in the state. You cannot deliver what
you don't have. If we are operating in a conducive environment then we
will be happy render the best service to the patients," she added.
Even with the dearth of nurses in the state-owned hospitals, she said
"Not less than 200 experienced nurses from the Lagos State general
hospitals will retire this year. And they that cannot be replaced over
night."
On how to address this shortage, Olusola said; "We expect the Lagos
State government to employ 600 young nurses to replace this huge
number that will retire from the state healthcare sector."
She noted that the number would serve as replacement for the
experienced nurses that would be retiring from the service at the end
of the year.
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