Polyclinic dispensary: Nursing school inaugurated

ISLAMABAD:

A nursing school was inaugurated at the Polyclinic’s dispensary in Sector G-7/3 on Thursday.

The nursing school, completed at a cost of Rs40 million with a capacity to train 100 nurses every
year, was inaugurated by Minister of Capital Administration and Development Division Barrister Usman Ibrahim.

After the inauguration, the minister said that the nursing school will also introduce BSc classes in the future. He also directed a joint coordination committee to review the curriculum of nursing schools of Polyclinic and the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences to introduce a uniform curriculum.

Ibrahim said the government was increasing the stipend of nursing students to attract more students to seek admission and adopt the noble profession.

Polyclinic spokesman Dr Tanveer Malik told The Express Tribune that earlier the nursing school was being run in a small rented building in Melody Market on a temporary basis.

“Now it has been shifted to a newly constructed two- storey building,” he said, adding that the nursing school has been established for deserving students to offer them free-of-cost nursing degree.

He said the building will be further extended in the future and the school will be given the status of a college.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 22^nd, 2015.