The country's health sector will not improve without the development of nursing profession, speakers said at a meeting here yesterday.
Marking International Nursing Day 2012, the programme was organised by Diploma Nurses Association (DNA) and Chittagong Nursing College at the college auditorium.
Director of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) Brig Gen Dr Md Fashiur Rahman, who was present as chief guest, urged the students and nurses to satisfy the society through their service.
Recalling the example of Florence Nightingale, the pioneer of nursing, Fashiur urged the nurses to follow her footsteps. Nightingale came from an aristocratic family, yet she sacrificed her life nursing ill people, he said.
For a nurse, nothing is more important than taking care of a patient, the CMCH director said, asking nurses to increase their knowledge and broaden their minds for the improvement of their service.
Describing nursing as a noble profession, CMCH deputy director Dr Shafiqur Rahman, said, “If we train nurses highly and create opportunity of researches for them, people will get better service”.
Dr Mozaffar Ahmed, an assistant director of CMCH, said meritorious students were now taking nursing education, enhancing the dignity of this profession.
There was a time when nursing was not treated well as a profession, but the situation has now changed as everybody has realised a hospital cannot run without nurses, he added.
Dipali Rani Mallick, nursing instructor at Chittagong Nursing College, elaborated the slogan of this year's International Nursing Day, “Closing the gap: From evidence to action”.
Hosne Ara Begum, principal of Chittagong Nursing College; nursing instructors Mili Chowdhury, Maksuda Begum; and Masud Parvez, general secretary of DNA Chittagong unit; also spoke on the occasion with DNA Chittagong unit president Romena Akter in the chair.
The meeting was preceded by a colourful procession brought out by the diploma nurses and students and teachers of Chittagong Nursing College on the college campus.
Source: The Daily Star

