The National President of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Mike Nnachi, has lamented that they were not considered in the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination.
According to the NANNM president, the association had thought that the government would seek its audience in the administration of the vaccine on nurses across the country.
Nnachi insisted that as a nursing body, they should have been carried along in the exercise.
“The thing is that I thought the association would be involved to mobilise our people, but up till now, we have not heard anything.
“Even when it started, I thought the association would be approached. We are ever willing because we are part of government so but when such was not forthcoming, there was nothing I could do.”
When asked if the association was satisfied with the vaccination, Nnachi said, “I thought that we should have been involved because our members are frontline health workers. There is no way the vaccine can be given without a nurse. Everyone knows that it is our core area; the administration of the injection, but we cannot fight anybody because the government is our own. We are part of the government,” he said.
