Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province by area, is facing a crisis of nursing staff in the health sector.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the standard requires 2.5 nurses per 1,000 population, but the president of Young Nurses Association of Balochistan, Chingiz Hosni, says that currently only 1058 nursing staff are working in the entire province. is doing while the need is for 20 thousand nurses.
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Genghis said that if directors, principals and other administrative officers are removed from the existing 1,057 nursing staff, it leaves a workforce of about 700 to 900, which is severely inadequate.
Calling the nurse as the backbone of the medical sector, he requested the provincial government and the provincial health minister to take urgent measures to address the shortage of nurses in hospitals.
Balochistan Health Minister Sardarzada Mir Faisal Jamali termed this problem as global and said that his government is trying to find a better solution to this problem and remove it wherever there is a shortage of nurses.
He said that we should encourage the nursing staff who carry out the responsibilities in the field. ‘Our effort is to make all the hospitals and nursing colleges of the entire province functional.’
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2024-08-26 16:23:09