Addressing a press conference in Ibadan at the end of the 2013 International Nurses Week celebration yesterday, the national president of NANNM, Mr. Abdrafiu Alani Adeniji commiserated with nurses and other health care professionals who were brutally murdered in recent times in the course of performing their life saving duties. 

 

The association urged the federal government not to pay lip service to protection of lives and property, adding that “security should not be made a political issue for re-election purpose.” 

 

The association enjoined government to “do everything within its powers to restore sanity in our society”. 

On the seeming rivalry between nurses and other health care professionals in the country, particularly the medical doctors, the association urged authorities to implement to the letter, the recommendations of the Hon. Justice Abdullahi Bello Gusau-led Presidential Committee on Harmony in healthcare sector saying there lies the future. 

 

The association declared, “The future lies in the implementation of the report if harmony is required in health care services in Nigeria of which we believe is the intention of the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan.”