EXCLUSION OF NURSE INTERNS BY UNIABUJATH: UGONSA SEEKS INTERVENTION OF THE FMOH

The Honourable Minister of Health,

Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH),

New Federal Secretariat Complex,

Phase III, Ahmadu Bello Way,

Central Business District,

P.M.B 083, Garki, Abuja, Nigeria.

Attention

Director of Human Resources, FMOH,

                          &

Director of Nursing Services, FMOH,

Sir,

CONTINUOUS EXCLUSION OF NURSE INTERNS FROM INTERNSHIP TRAINING BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ABUJA TEACHING HOSPITAL: A REQUEST FOR YOUR URGENT FATHERLY INTERVENTION

Members of this association comprising nurses with a minimum qualification of first degree in nursing immensely appreciate the superlative fairness of the Federal Ministry of Health under your able watch to nurses and the nursing profession. However, we wish to emphasize that inordinate actions of some hospital managements obviously rooted in primordial sentiments and bias against the nursing profession have not allowed the good intention of the ministry to percolate well to the grassroots of the healthcare delivery system.

     2. A case in point is the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital that has refused to include the fresh graduate nurses in its internship training programme four years aft
er the circular for the graduate nurses’ internship was released despite that we have repeatedly served them the internship circular and the guideline from the FMOH for the implementation of the internship.

      3.    We were appalled to see them again single out only the nurse interns for exclusion among all the prospective interns of the core healthcare professions in their 2020 Internship Recruitment Examination scheduled to take place on September 9 & 10, 2020 (Please kindly refer the attached document for evidence of the exclusion).

     4.     Such inexplicable and unjustifiable exclusion negates the sense of equity and fairness the FMOH has done much to foster among the healthcare professionals.

We therefore humbly implore your urgent fatherly intervention and direction of the management of the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital to tow the line of the FMOH and show equity and fairness by including the prospective nurse interns in the current Internship Recruitment Exercise.

                                                                           Signed:

 

         CHIEF (HON.) S.E.O. EGWUENU                                         NURSE P.O. ETENG

            National President                                                               Ag.National Secretary