COVID-19: Ondo govt not doing enough, nurses protests

In an ongoing protest in Ondo State, aggrieved government hospitals' nurses have accused the state government of not doing enough in carrying out contact tracing of infected persons in the state.

According to Sahara Reporters, the nurses, who converged at the Mother and Child Hospital in Akure, the state capital, are also protesting the rising cases of Coronavirus among health workers in the state.

The health workers revealed that over 10 nurses and five doctors have contracted the deadly COVID-19 in the state in the last one week.

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.

As at the time of this report, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, revealed that there are 154 COVID-19 infections in Ondo State.