This piece is written in commemoration with Nurses globally for their efforts towards nursing our mother Earth to health and also in remembrance of our "Lady with the Lamp" Florence Nightingale whose revolutionary efforts brought Nursing to global limelight with estimated 20.3millions as Registered Professional members and more than 7.3billion people as their beneficiaries excluding those in the grave beyond where our FNG dwells too.
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The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has called on the Federal Government to increase the retirement age of nurses from 60 to 70 years.
President of NANNM, Nurse Mike Nnachi, who made the call at the flag for 2021 International Nurses week in Abuja said this became imperative as about 50 per cent of the workforce in the health delivery system are nurses and needed to be encouraged and motivated.
He noted that despite the passion of the nurses to deliver qualitative healthcare, a lot of challenges abound as insecurity is one of the challenges hindering the effectiveness of Nurses.
Female genital mutilation otherwise known as female circumcision has over time been a public health issue with stakeholders proffering ways to deal with the seeming intractable phenomenon given our social and cultural dynamics.
Statistics show that over 200 million girls and women have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, (FGM) in Africa, Middle East and Asia. Most of these girls are between infancy and 15years. More than 3 million girls are estimated to be at risk for FGM annually and Nigeria is not unaffected.
This was one of the submissions at an online sensitization via zoom organized by the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) Edo State Chapter on the ills of FGM.
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Ogun State health workers on Tuesday condemned the high level of insecurity in the state and lamented that all parts of the state were becoming unsafe.
The state chapters of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives as well as the Nigerian Medical Association stated this in separate interviews with The PUNCH while explaining their decision to begin a strike at 12 midnight on Tuesday.
The NANNM, in a letter to the state Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, dated April 12, hinged its decision on the kidnap of health workers in the state.