The university Graduates of
Nursing Science Association (UGONSA) also known as the Graduate Nurses
Association of Nigeria (GNAN) has called on its members to show solidarity to
the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU).
In a statement jointly made by
its National President, Chief Hon. Solomon E.O. Egwuenu, and the National
Secretary, Nurse Goodluck I. Nshi, the association said its assessment of the
current JOHESU agitation shows that it is a departure from what it used to be
in the past.
The association said it is
encouraging that JOHESU put the patient at the centre of its current struggle;
such disposition makes its agitation an honourable one worthy of holistic
support by all.
“It is a good thing that JOHESU
centres its current agitation on improving the lots of Nigerian patients, which
can be any Nigerian other than the insensitive political class that crumbled
our health system with adverse policies and now shamelessly added medical
tourism abroad as a part of their official entitlements.
“Ordinary Nigerians are not slaves. Like the
heartless political class, they also deserve accessible qualitative healthcare
services at affordable cost. It is an honourable thing that JOHESU is taking
the bull by the horn at this moment for the masses, who are at the receiving
end of our poor healthcare system that was naughtily battered by the
'mismanagers' of our health sector.
The association called on
Nigerians to understand that JOHESU’s agitation is for their interest and urged
that they should join JOHESU to demand for repositioning of our health system
for efficient and effective care delivery.
“It is better we pass through
some pains today and bequeath a better healthcare system to our children. Our
healthcare system is going down every day because of mismanagement. Such must
not be allowed to continue.
“That our health system that once
ranked among the best three in the Commonwealth of Nations today ranks among
the last three, not because we do not have capable and competent healthcare
professionals, is a testament to the fact that mismanagement is entrenched in
the leaching fabrics of retrogression of our health system. If nothing drastic is done now, in the near
future we may derail further to become number one from behind!
“What we have now as a health
system was not what our founding fathers handed down to us and we cannot afford
to bequeath something similar or worse than this currently squalid health
system to our children. Nigerians should rise up to join JOHESU in saying that
enough is enough!
The association asserted that it
stands for and with any struggle that is selfless and honourable, like the
current agitation by JOHESU, and called on its members to show maximum
solidarity to the struggle.
“Just as we call on Nigerians for
understanding and support, we equally call on our members to show maximum
solidarity and support to JOHESU because its current agitation is a selfless
campaign for qualitative and efficient care delivery to ordinary Nigerians- it
said
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