The Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, Faruk Abubakar, on Tuesday mentioned a median nurse within the nation earns not lower than N135,000 month-to-month.
Abubakar mentioned this whereas talking on the controversy surrounding the certification verification of nurses on Tuesday version of Channels Tv's Morning Temporary.
Nurses underneath the auspices of the Nationwide Affiliation of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives staged the protest on the workplaces of the NMCN in Abuja and Lagos respectively, to precise their displeasure at what they described as an try and hamper their freedom to pursue profession alternatives, and requested the council to concentrate to the welfare of nurses, the wage scale, the scarcity of employees and different rights.
NMCN in its revised tips said that candidates in search of verification of certificates from international nursing boards and councils will need to have two years of post-qualification expertise from the date of issuance of the everlasting training license.
The NMCN is the only authorized, administrative, company and statutory physique that carries out particular capabilities on behalf of the Federal Authorities to make sure the supply of secure and efficient nursing and midwifery care to the general public by way of high quality training and finest apply.
The council is empowered by legislation to manage the requirements of training and apply of nursing and midwifery in Nigeria and to assessment such requirements infrequently to satisfy the altering well being wants of the society.
Abubakar mentioned within the TV program that the council is just not accountable for the remuneration of nurses within the nation however the Federal Ministry of Well being and Human Providers and the NANNM are working to enhance the welfare of the nurses.
“The difficulty of remuneration doesn’t fall underneath the NMCN, it’s the accountability of the Honorable Minister of the Ministry of Well being, and I need to make this clear to you. Just a few weeks in the past, NANNM paid a courtesy name on the Honorable Minister. and he has fashioned a committee that may tackle all the problems raised by the nationwide affiliation, together with the welfare concern that you’re speaking about.
“A median nurse who’s engaged receives not lower than N135,000, it relies on the place they work. A few of them obtain as much as N200,000. It relies on the place they work, whether or not it’s nationwide, state or native authorities. I believe that's the quick abstract I can let you know.
“I have to say that the FMoH is doing lots and a committee is now being arrange by the FMoH to have a look at all of the circumstances filed by the affiliation on behalf of the nurses throughout the nation. I consider this may tackle the difficulty of prosperity and the difficulty of pay that they’re speaking about.
“It isn’t the board's accountability to find out a nurse's compensation; pay can be decided by the Nationwide Fee on Salaries, Incomes and Wages, the physique accountable for figuring out it nationwide and together with nurses.”
