Paramount Chief for the Oguaa Traditional Area in the Central Region, Osabarimba Kwesi Atta ll has urged trainee nurses and midwives of the Cape Coast Nursing and Midwifery Training College to discharge their duty to patients with outmost care, patience and the fear of God when they finally pass out as professional health practitioners.

According to him, nursing profession without the aforementioned qualities is worthless. Hence the need for them to execute their work flawlessly by not dragging along their encountered challenges at home to the ward as health practitioners.

He said this at the matriculation, graduation and 75th anniversary of the Cape Coast Nursing and Midwifery Training College, themed: "75 Years of Quality Health Training: Repositioning to Achieve Universal Health Coverage."

Osabarimba Kwesi Atta addressing a number of 613 newly admitted students to the institution, coupled with a number of graduating health practitioners from college ahead of their practice as professional nurses and midwives, advised them that the greatest gift any nurse can offer a patient is to have the patient speak highly of the nurse after treatment.

He described the nursing profession as an herculean work for one to enter, as patients themselves will at times try all possible means to have issues with the nurse, but encouraged the need from the trainee nurses and midwives to ignore such confrontations when encountered to execute their work diligently with care and patience.

The Central Regional Minister, Hon. Justina Marigold Assan at the program eulogized the invaluable role nurses and midwives play in Ghana's healthcare delivery system. Establishing that nurses desire to save lives is a divine call, as they're entrusted with the nurturing of human lives right from conception to the grave.

Hon. Marigold Assan again congratulated newly admitted students of the nursing institution on their meritorious enrollment to the college's 2023 admission list and urged them to work hard to achieve their aim of been admitted at the school and to also take a cue from the event's chosen theme to get abreast with the current trend of technology in the global healthcare delivery system.

Mrs. Jemima Fati Ackon, Principal of the Cape Coast Nursing and Midwifery Training College on the upsurge of Ghanaian health practitioners traveling overseas, she highlighted to be impossible to prevent these health practitioners from traveling outside the country, but beholds on government to put in place adequate measures to have equally good nurses and midwives replace those traveling abroad with the provision of requisite logistics to enhance healthcare delivery in the country.

She, therefore, disclosed her school to be facing a host of challenges like transportation, as buses of the college appears faulty and overaged in transporting students for clinicals and other important school activities. Having called for the construction of spacious lecture halls, a fence wall and accessable road network to the college's new campus at Abura.

Source//Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan