Presidential candidate of the Labour Party Mr Peter Obi has urged the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria to reverse the regulations made for nurses and midwives wishing to travel outside the Country for greener pastures…..CONTINUE READING HERE
The Council was reported to have announced that nurses and midwives wishing to travel outside the Country must have among other things worked in the country before being allowed to leave the country and work abroad.
According to Obi while making a donation of N2 Million to Our Lady of Loause Ihiala in Anambra state said that Nigerian nurses and midwives should be allowed access to the opportunity of Global Employment.
“I appeal to the Nurses and Midwife Council of Nigeria to reverse their stringent conditions of our nursing personnel working overseas”
“You cannot restrict our young ones the opportunity of Global Employment and what is available now in Nigeria shows that Nigeria has one of the most sorted nurses globally and they should therefore be allowed to seek the opportunities that are global for them “
“What we should do as a nation is to allow them and we should invest more on nursing services if possible at all the local government areas and give them the best of training as well as support to produce more nurses and help them get job globally”
“This is because they are the ones that would come back to invest here in Nigeria and they would help to improve our foreign exchange and the investment is critical and I urge government to go round to support them and I urge the Nurses and Midwife Council of Nigeria to reverse it’s conditions” he said…..CONTINUE READING HERE
