COVID-19: Plateau Nurses, Midwives threaten strike over protection equipment

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Nurses and Midwives in Plateau State on Saturday threatened to withdraw their services from the fight against the spread of COVID-19 due to the alleged non-provision of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) by the State Government.

Nurses and Midwives in Plateau State on Saturday threatened to withdraw their services from the fight against the spread ofdue to the alleged non-provision of Personal Protection Equipment by the State Government.

“We have decided to down tools in all health centres, including hospitals and Isolation centres if the state government will not provide our members with the desired protection equipment. Mrs Dabit, who declared “No PPE, Don’t Risk Yourself,“ however, frowned at the government’s exclusion of the association’s members in the Task Force it recently set up to fight the spread of COVID-19 in the state.

The chairman also urged the state government to “use this opportunity to develop the health sector which needs serious intervention”.

 

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If the health workers come into contact with Covid-19 patients, they'll be infected & may die. If they die, they won't receive salaries. If the govt will not give them protection equipment, they should stay away from work, even if they'll lose their jobs. It's worse losing life.

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