Despite House of Reps. Re-Opening Directive, NMCN Verification Portal Remains Shut

The official website of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, or NMCN, has remained shut despite a series of protests by Nigerian nurses and a re-opening directive by the House of Representatives.

As contained in a letter seen by West Africa Weekly, the House Committee on Health Institutions urged the NMCN to open its website and commence verification of nurses and midwives based on its former guidelines (not the revised Guidelines for verification dated February 7, 2023), pending the investigation by the committee.

This letter conveyed the House Resolution for you [NMCN] for further necessary action,” the letter reads partly.

The letter was issued on August 13 2024, after the House of Representatives on Tuesday, 23 July 2024, deliberated on the negative portrayal following NMCN’s revised guidelines issued on February 7 2024.

As earlier reported, the controversial guidelines posited that nurses who intend to travel to work outside the country must meet the stringent verification requirements.

These include a mandatory 2-year post-graduation work experience, obtaining a letter of good standing from a previous employer, and enduring a 6-month wait for verification approval, indicating measures that nurses perceive as restrictive and designed to delay their departure to work outside the country.

Meanwhile, with the investigation of the House Committee on Health Institutions pending, NMCN has yet to re-open its portal for nurses.

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