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Liberia: Govt Declares Nursing School Tuition-Free
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The NEWS (Monrovia)
24 September 2007
Posted to the web 24 September 2007
Benjamin B. Sworh
Monrovia
One of Liberia's largest nursing institutions, the Tubman National Institute of Medical Arts (TNIMA), has been declared tuition-free, the administration disclosed here over the weekend.
Administrator Emelia Ayomanr said the decision was taken by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to due to the shortage of nurses in the country.
Ayomanr also told a gathering that the decision by the government was in the right direction because the health delivery system needed adequate manpower to cope with the overwhelming health situation in the country.
Under the tuition-free scheme, graduates would be required to render services in their region of origin for two-years. This means that there could be an increased number of nurses and physicians in the rural areas, as most regions in the country are rural in characteristics.
Ayomanr made the disclosure at programs marking the Acceptance and Capping of 207 freshman students of the Schools of Environmental Health, Physician Assistant, Nursing and Midwifery at Liberia's largest referral hospital, JFK Medical Center in the Sinkor district of Monrovia, capital of Liberia.
The event marked the end of the first semester evaluation period for freshman students.
Out of 230 students who enrolled, 207 freshman students passed all required courses.
The JFK medical hospital's general administrator, Wvannie Scott-McDonald expressed thanks to the school's administration for their tireless efforts in molding the minds of the students.
Scott-McDonald assured that her administration would continue its support to the institution.
She said ten scholarships were being provided for students who were reading professional nursing for a four-year study in the United States of America and that she would lobby with other universities for more scholarships for other departments in the medical school.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the House of Representatives' committee on health and social welfare, Representative Edwin P. Gaye has warned students at the nursing school against discriminating patients in the discharge of their duties.
Gaye said it was disheartening to see nurses discriminating among patients for money or material things.
"You have taken a major challenge to enter into the medical profession; so please do not discriminate among patients; treat all of them equally; be good, caring and God fearing", he admonished the students.
The Lawmaker spoke when he served as keynote speaker at the program. Representative Gaye observed that some nurses were careless about other patients because the relatives of those patients could not afford to give them money or material things.
The Lawmaker promised that he would lobby with his colleagues to ensure that the school was elevated into a degree-granting nursing program.
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He also urged the students to render services in their various regions upon graduation.
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