After nearly two decades of waiting by successive sets of the Department of Nursing, the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) has approved internship programme for the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Teaching Hospital, Parklane, Enugu.
NMCN also approved indexing of nursing students at the College of Nursing and the former School of Nursing, Awgu, recently also upgraded to College of Nursing.
The approvals were announced by Registrar of the Council, Dr. Faruk Abubakar, when he led a delegation of NMCN’s accreditation team on a courtesy visit to Governor Peter Mbah at Government House, Enugu.
Abubakar commended the Mbah administration for providing the requisite infrastructure at the Colleges of Nursing, Park Lane and Awgu to create a conducive environment for teaching and learning, while also paying attention to the welfare of health workers.
He announced the council’s approval for the immediate recruitment of 50 interns to work at Park Lane, stating that with the approval of the internship programme, more graduate nurses would now be trained at ESUT University Teaching Hospital to boost the state’s nursing manpower.
Abubakar said, “When you train nurses in Nigeria, they are specialists in Midwifery, General Nursing and Public Health and the internship programme will strengthen the health sector.”
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