The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) has clarified the new Verification of Certificate guidelines recently issued by the body, says the development is meant to promote professionalism in the noble profession and also protect it from quacks
The council lamented that over forty-two thousand nurses have emigrated in the last three years with over fifteen thousand others left to practise abroad just last year alone.
Registrar of the Council, Dr. Faruk Umar Abubakar, who stated this yesterday when he appeared on a live programme, noted that NMCN has been inundated with complaints from health facilities about the activities of nurses, adding that some of these professionals abscond from duty for days and even weeks, “only for you to hear they have left the country for professional practice abroad with no proper resignation or notification.
Describing the situation as unprofessional, Abubakar explained that the council is not against foreign practice, but it is expected that it should be done formally.
On her part, the Chairman National Association Of Nigeria Nurses And Midwives NANNM, Lagos Chapter, Christianna Adeboboye, argued that nurses are leaving for foreign practice because of several inadequacies in the country,coupled with poor remuneration and working conditions
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