World Nursing Day to be celebrated tomorrow

Lahore : Chief Nursing Superintendent Services Hospital Samina Yasmeen has said that noble profession of nursing is a ray of hope and recovery for patients suffering from various ailments.

She said that patients express even more confidence on nurses than doctors. A number of more steps and initiatives are needed to be taken for the promotion of nursing department in Pakistan. White uniform of nurses requires more facilities, sense of security and better service structure for nurses, she added.

Samina Yasmeen expressed these views in connection with World Nursing Day being celebrated tomorrow. She was of the view that nurses become Allah’s blessing for the ailing humanity and they work shoulder to shoulder with male companions to save human lives. She applauded Punjab government for recruiting charge nurses through Punjab Public Service Commission for the first time to meet merit and transparency. Punjab government has also regularized nurses working on contract basis but the government should also regularized those experienced nurses working against the vacancies of Board of Management, she stressed.

Nurses Rashida Naureen, Nafeesa Ahmed, Gulshan and others said on this occasion that number of nurses must be increased in accordance with rapidly rising the number of patients in hospitals. They also emphasized that nurses who have done their specializations should be posted in the relevant departments so as to get better results. The nurses demanded that residential facilities in the nurses’ hostels and other basic amenities should be improved for the betterment of nurse community.