Covid-19: Nurses abandon 17 patients due to sit-at home order - JUTH CMD
- Nurses at JUTH has been blamed for going on strike
- The blame was heaped on the nurses by CMD of the hospital, Professor Edmund Banwat
- Meanwhile, the nurses said the strike was necessary because of the lack of protective equipment
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The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), the Jos University Teaching Hospital, JUTH , chapter has been blasted by Professor Edmund Banwat, the Chief Medical Director of hospital.
According to him, the strike action has affected 17 coronavirus patients receiving treatment at the hospital, Vanguard reports.
Meanwhile, Mercy Lenka, chairman of the JUTH chapter of the Association said the order was necessary because their members were risking their lives working under stringent conditions.
According to her, the nurses are at risk of getting infected because of the lack of protective equipment.
Recall that Legit.ng had reported that Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) in Plateau state has reportedly sacked 25 doctors working with the health institution.
The retrenchment of the resident doctors is causing panic at the hospital.
Legit.ng gathered that JUTH is one of the isolation centres for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients in the state. The development raised concerns about the treatment of quarantined patients.
The president of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), JUTH branch, Dr Stephen Lukden, reportedly confirmed the development in Jos on Wednesday, May 6.
Lukden said: “It is true; 25 residents received letters of termination of their residency training and we have information that some will receive theirs in the weeks/months to come. We have not seen this kind of thing before.”
The doctors' association has, however, written the management of JUTH to reverse the termination which it described as unjust and illegal.
The association made reference to the Medical Residency Training Act (MRTA) 2017, which was signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari and gazetted on July 16, 2018.
The Act stipulated guidelines on the conduct of residency training programmes in the country.
The association submitted that sacking the doctors was in breach of the Act which the Federal Ministry of Health had also directed all CMDs in the federal tertiary health institutions to implement.
“It is sad that this sack is occurring in the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic when the Federal Government is even considering recalling retired doctors to the workforce.
“The unlawful termination of these appointments contravenes the provision of the MRTA, which mandates the National Post-Graduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN) to regulate the residency training and also routinely bring out online data bases stating when a resident should be withdrawn from the programme," the letter read partly.
The CMD of JUTH, Prof. Edward Banwat, is yet to react to the development.
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