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Nursing to be upgraded to world standards: PM

More nurses to be sent abroad

UNB, Dhaka
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said nursing profession would he upgraded to world standards by enhancing the nurses' social dignity with proportional pay and promotion.
Announcing a big package plan for this sector of healthcare, the prime minister also said her government would send more nurses abroad with higher training.
"Our government has already started working to this end. Programmes are being taken to incorporate English, French and Arabic languages in the nursing curriculum to send skilled nurses to developed countries of Europe and America and the Middle East." she told an award giving function of nurses.
Moreover, the government has taken step to set up a Commission on General Foreign Nursing System (CGFNS) Examination Centre in the country and introduce modem nursing courses, she said.
The government has also taken measures to increase seats in the existing
nursing institutes up to 1,490 from the present number of 1,135, setting up five nursing institutes and turning 4 institutes into nursing colleges, the prime minister announced.
Besides, she disclosed the government plans to set up nursing colleges in every divisional headquarter, nursing institutes in ever)’ district and nursing college with every medical college of the country.
Sheikh Hasina said this while addressing the distribution ceremony of gold medals and citations to the 'Best Nurses' arranged by the Health Ministry at Osrnani Memorial Auditorium.
Health Minister Dr AFM Ruhal Haque. Adviser to the Prime Minister Prof Dr Syed Mudasser Ali, World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative Dr Duangvadee Sungkhobol and Director, Nursing, Jahanara Begum also spoke on the occasion with Secretary of the Health Ministry Sheikh Altaf Ali in the chair.
Under the fiscal year 2007-08, 62 nurses, most of them female, were given
the gold medals and citations in the 'Best Nurse'category.
Seven nurses were also given gold medals for their outstanding results in the third-year final examination of Diploma in Nursing Course.
The prime minister expressed her concern over the less number of nurses against huge patients in the country.
The prime minister described the nursing profession as highly prospective as it can create huge employment opportunities.
To cope with the necessity of adequate number of nurses, rhe government has updated its policy to pave the way ol setting up private nursing institutes and colleges, the prime minister said.
The community health clinics will be made operational again to ensure proper healthcare of mothers and children in the rural areas, shesaid.
The government wants also to eradicate all communicable diseases, ensure primary health service and provide sani-. tation facilities to all by 2013, she said.