World Nursing Day marked in Quetta

The Baloch Hal News

QUETTA: Hundreds of nurses on Wednesday gathered at civil hospital nursing school to mark the World Nursing Day.

Students of nursing school held a ceremony at Civil Hospital Quetta where vice principal Nursing school Mohammad Slim Hasni cut the cake in connection with the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of nursing as a modern profession.

Talking on the occasion, nurses demanded of the government to restore training of male nurses to reduce the burden on female nurses in Balochistan.

Nurses of Sandemen Provincial hospital and under trainees of provincial school of nurses in Civil Hospital have underlined the need for restoring the training of male nurses in the province.

In the wake of current string of terrorism across the country like other provinces, we are in dire need of the male staff, they emphasized, adding in such cases entire responsibility rests on the female nurses and they have to attend the victims of the terrorism alone. They maintained that Balochistan hospitals receive patients injured in terrorism incidents, adding therefore, there is requirement of adequate number of male nurses at the hospitals to serve the male injured keeping in view the situation.

They called upon the government for the grant of high risk allowance and noted that it is a nurse who has to attend the patients of Kango virus and hepatitis hailing from all around the province.

Nabeela Fayaz, a third year student in a school of nursing lamented that they were getting even half of the scholarship compared to Punjab trainee nurses. Rs 4200 are paid to a trainee nurse in Balochistan while the trainee nurse in Punjab receives over Rs 7000 as scholarship, she said.

We have great expectations with the incumbent government as nurses in Balochistan are facing lot of problems said Maryam Younus, student in a nursing school. She maintained that on account of non-availability of sufficient accommodation, students are coerced to live even more than three in a single room.

Authorities concerned should take concrete step for the resolution of the problems such as increase in scholarship, restoration of male nurses training, setting up a directorate; college for nurses, demanded another nurse Saima William.