Recruitment and improved working condition for Nurses will help improve healthcare services in the State and stem the tide of losing qualified Nurses who seek greener pastures outside the shores of the country.
The State Chairperson, National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Mrs Edith Onwuka who stated this in an interview to mark 2021 International Nurses Day, commended the State Government for improving the working condition of Nurses in the State’s Healthcare system, adding that there is still room for improvement
Our Correspondent reports that Mrs Onwuka, who observed that activities of untrained Nurses are still challenges to the profession, explained that a Committee has been set up to ensure that only approved centres train Nurses.
She commended the State Ministry of Health and Primary Healthcare Development Agency for involving the association in the ongoing recruitment of Nurses in the State.
A Deputy Director in the State Ministry of Health, Mrs Stella Ekweozor, who described Nurses as frontline healthcare workers, said ongoing recruitment of Nurses is a way of addressing challenges of manpower in nursing practices.
International Nurses Day is celebrated on May 12 to mark the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth, a British nurse, statistician and social reformer, whose efforts to formalize nursing education led her to establish the first scientifically based nursing school, the Nightingale School of Nursing, at Saint Thomas’ Hospital in London, opened 1860
The theme for the 2021 International Nurses Day is Nurse, “A Voice to lead a vision for future healthcare”.
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