Yaba psychiatric hospital nurses demand better pay, welfare

Nurses astatine the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, person called connected the Federal Government to amended their welfare, moving conditions and entree to resources.

The nurses made the telephone during the 2026 Nurses’ Week solemnisation organised by the hospital’s Department of Nursing and the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives, FPH Yaba.

Speaking astatine the lawsuit themed, “Our Nurses, Our Future: Empowered Nurses Save Lives,” the keynote speaker, Prof. Adeshina Badru, described nurses arsenic the “heartbeat of the healthcare system.”

Badru, Dean of the Faculty of Nursing, University of Lagos, highlighted the demanding relation of psychiatric nurses, including termination prevention, managing acute psychosis and supporting patients and their families.

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