Nurses in UCH Wear Mufti To Work, Over Unpaid Uniform Allowances
By Adegbenro Salawu
The Nurses working with University College Hospital, (UCH), Ibadan resumed at their various working post by wearing mufti instead of their various level uniforms.
They did this as a show of protest to demand payment of their accumulated four years uniform allowance, following the expiration of 21 day ultimatum given to the management of the Hospital.
It was gathered that nurses working in Federal hospitals are entitled to 20, 000 naira, annually, as uniform allowance, but the management of UCH, Ibadan, had not been paying since 2019.
Over this non payment of their annual uniform allowance, the Nurses, under the umbrella body of National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), took the decision to drive home their demand.
However, this development has raised ethical and security concerns among patients and workers inside the facility, seen a nurse that supposed to be in a known uniform but instead in muftis which is making it difficulty to differentiate between a real nurse and a visitor.
Speaking to a nurse at the hospital, who didn’t want her name to be mentioned, said it is a very sad thing, for a tertiary health care centre like this, to be in this kind of avoidable condition.
She added that had it been the management of the hospital did not ignore the 21 day ultimatum given them, which expired on October 3rd, this would not have happened.
She stated further that this decision by members of (NANNM), UCH, Ibadan chapter was backed by the national body.
However, a call was put through to the Public Relation Officer of UCH, Funmi Adetuyibi, this morning, Friday, October 6, 2023, but she neither picked nor returned the call.
