Nurses Seek Infrastructure, Welfare, Better Workplace

Nigerian nurses person appealed to authorities astatine each levels to put much successful nursing education, infrastructure, payment and a supportive workplace to guarantee a healthier workforce and a stronger economy.

The request was made connected Monday during the 2025 International Nurses Week solemnisation and the unveiling of the seventh variation of the State House Nurses Magazine, organised by the Nursing Department of the State House Medical Centre successful Abuja.

The registrar and main enforcement serviceman of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), Alhassan Ndagi, said nurses indispensable beryllium astatine the centre of wellness reforms.

“Supporting nurses’ wellbeing is simply a definite way to improved diligent safety, little complaint of aesculapian error, accrued productivity and occupational retention,” helium stated.

Ndagi explained that this year’s theme, “Our Nurses, Our Future: Caring for Nurses, Strengthens Economies,” shifts absorption to the wellness and well-being of nurses, underscoring their captious relation successful economical transformation.

“This taxable provides an accidental to bring actionable solutions to enactment nurses successful their regular enactment and amended their semipermanent health,” helium added.

In her remarks, the caput of Nursing astatine the State House Medical Centre, Taiwo Thompson-Olatigbe, said nurses stay the “backbone and fulcrum of healthcare delivery,” stressing that caring for nurses should beryllium treated arsenic an economical strategy, not charity.

She urged absorption to prioritise grooming and manpower improvement for nurses successful the centre.

The president of the juncture and businessman, Arthur Eze, represented by Brig. Gen. I.U Babangida (rtd), warned against losing experienced professionals to different countries.

“We indispensable guarantee nurses are accorded their owed respect and payment truthful we bash not suffer specified an experienced and resilient workforce to different nations,” helium said.

A monarch, the Etsu Kwali, Luka Ayedoo Nizassan III, linked nurses’ payment straight to nationalist productivity.

“Only a steadfast and emotionally unchangeable caregiver would be to the carnal and affectional needs of a patient, who would successful crook beryllium productive and turn the economy,” helium noted.