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Jobs for 2,000 nurses soon

Pledges PM

UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has said 2,000 more senior staff nurses will be appointed soon and the process is underway to create 800 posts of nursing supervisors.
She made the announcement
while giving away gold medals and certificates to over 300 nurses for their better performance in the humanitarian service.
The government has already recruited 2,000 senior staff nurses.
The awarding ceremony was held at Osmani Memorial Auditorium yesterday. The Nursing Directorate under the health ministry organised the function, attended, among others, by senior government officials, diplomats, physicians and nurses.
A total of 310 male and female nurses received awards for their belter services in the last five years from 1999 to 200-1 Nine student nurses were awarded Rahima Khatun Trust Gold Medal for their brilliant results in nursing examinations.
Rahima Khatun was the first director of the Nursing Directorate.
Presently, the number of working nurses in the country Is 19,444, up from 6,000 in 1977, according to a senior official of the health ministry.
Listing various steps taken by the government to meet the need of necessary manpower and imparting training In hospitals and health service centers, the prime minister said offshore master’s degree course in clinical nursing has been introduced and diploma nursing curriculum improved to "enhance skill of the nurses".
"Construction of a nursing college in Bogra is complete and two more new nursing colleges will be set up in Chittagong and Miulna." the prime minister told the function.
She said two new nursing institutes have been set up in Nilphamari and Naogaon and five more institutes will be set up in different parts of the country.
Health Minister Khandokar Mosharraf Hossain, Stale Minister for Health Mizanur Rahman Sinha and Director of the Nursing Directorate Khodeza-tul-Kobra also addressed the function.
The prime minister urged the nurses to perform their noble duties sincerely. Reminding them of dignity of the profession, she said they are engaged in such a profession where they are only addressed as 'brother' and'sister'.
"You will have to keep this respect
and love," she told the nurses.
Referring to medicare and responsibility of physicians and nurses in foreign countries where many patients from Bangladesh have to go for treatment of complicated diseases, the prime minister noted that differences are noticed here in the same profession in respect of intimacy, sincerity, skill and dutifulness.
"I believe, not all, but some are responsible for this. But the entire profession is blamed for somebody's negligence, failure and attitudes of merely going by routine," she observed, requesting the concerned to be careful about this laxity.
Describing various impacts and glory of the noble profession of nursing, she said good care, warm behaviour and assurance of a devoted nurse enhance the
mental stamina of a patient manifold and help largely in curing disease.
The prime minister cited the glorious contribution and performance of Florence Nightingale and Mother Teresa in service to humanity. She hoped that the nurses would follow the path laid by the two great women.