Agitated nurses working in government hospitals in Ondo State, have taken to the streets to protest the increasing number of Coronavirus among their colleagues.
The nurses were seen with placards in their large numbers at the Mother and Child Hospital in Akure, the state capital.
They said the government wasn’t doing enough in the effective tracing of infected persons in the state, thus exposing them to the virus.
According to the nurses, over 10 nurses and five doctors have been infected with the novel Coronavirus in the state in seven days.
They said the situation had forced their colleagues to stop work at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Akure.
Chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives in the state, Kehinde Nomiye, said they were ready to embark on industrial action if the situation persists.
