Sodiq Ojuroungbe The Ekiti State Commissioner for Health, Dr Oyebanji Filani and and nurses in the state’s public health sector have been in constant disagreement over the non-payment of some categories of allowances since 2023. The nurses under the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives also accused the state government of discriminating against them in the implementation of the new salary scale for health workers. Speaking exclusively with PUNCH Healthwise, the state chairman of NANNM, Samuel Adegbuyi, lamented that only the medical doctors had been enjoying the increased health salary structure known as the Consolidated Health Salary Structure and hazard allowance.
Adegbuyi explained that the association had written several letters to the government since October 2023 without any positive response. Samuel Adegbuyi He described the commissioner’s claim that the new salary scale had been implemented for all health workers as false. The NANNM chairman said the nurses in the state were also demanding the domestication of the scheme of service for nurses in the state civil service, which would ensure that graduate nurses are absorbed at the appropriate grade level 10 instead of starting from scratch.
He explained, “The only thing peculiar to nurses in Ekiti state at the primary and the secondary health facility is the issue of graduate nurses coming into the state civil service. There is a level that that person must be absorbed, such a person is not expecte.