Nursing termed backbone of healthcare system

Centre provided Rs1.8b to improve nursing midwifery services

KARACHI:

There is a need to protect, support and invest in the nursing profession to strengthen the global health care system.

Ziauddin University Pro-chancellor Dr Nida Hussain said that the nurses were especially overworked and exposed during the pandemic, "and we appreciate their humanity during that time". Nursing is the backbone of all healthcare systems around the world.

She was addressing the seminar, titled "Nurses: A Voice to Lead - Invest in Nursing and Respect Rights to Secure Global Health" to mark International Nurses Day, organized by Ziauddin University Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery. The purpose of the seminar was to inform the public about the work of nurses and how they contribute to the health and wellbeing of the public.

"At Ziauddin, we understood the need of promoting nurses' work and rights to a safe workplace, as well as their full participation and decision-making in patient care and our administrative function. We've worked very hard in the last two decades to improve the quality of our nursing", Dr Nida Hussain added.

Representing the Government of Sindh, Director General Nursing Shabir Hussain Jhatial said that since the country's founding, Sindh province has had almost 1100 BSN admissions and nearly 600 midwifery admissions. The Covid was at its peak when the Sindh government interpolated 2,000 nurses, despite the country's financial problems.

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The nurses were given hundreds of job opportunities. The federal government has allocated Rs8.1 billion rupees for the improvement of nursing and midwifery services. As far as the Sindh government is concerned, nurses and midwifery are being developed and improved, and nurses are being invested in for the good of our country.

While giving the knowledge about the current nursing reports Dr. Rozina Karmaliani, Dean, School of Nursing and Midwifery Aga Khan University said by 2030, the WHO expects that the globe will require an additional nine million nurses and midwives. Take a look at the situation in Pakistan; it was already in short supply before the conflict, and "we urgently need to develop a large number of high-quality nurses and midwives in Pakistan."

 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 24^th, 2022.