The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, NANNM, Akwa-Ibom State chapter has alerted the nation to alleged spate of deaths of its members.
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In an interview, NANNM Chairman, Mr Patrick Odu, told Punchng.com, that the association is losing its members to the cold hands of death.
Odu explained that on the average three nurses in the employ of the state government died every month out of stress occasioned by work pressure due to shortage of manpower.
Quoting him, the paper wrote, “We bury a lot of nurses in this state because of stress of work. What many nurses would have done is being done by a few nurses. We have cases where nurses collapse on duty because of stress.
“In the process of taking care of the patients they end up dying in the ward, so the situation is as bad as that. In fact, there is no month we don’t bury up to three nurses. There is one obituary I have just received for burial of one of my members.”
