The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)

Ethiopia: Private College First Ever to Award Nursing Degree Free

By Biruk Girma, 29 February 2008

Addis Ababa — A batch of 16 students who happened to be the first degree students to train in nursing free of charge on Wednesday received their degree from the first privately owned Nursing College.

The graduated students were the seventh batch to SalaM Nurse College but first to be awarded with B.Sc degree in General Nursing Science.

"You are our first degree graduate students in this smaller group", said Bayech Tsegaye, College Dean while congratulating the team.

The dean said the students underwent a four-year training equipped with latest international standard knowledge, skills and values necessary to render quality health services to the society.

Established by the famed business tycoon Sheik Mohammed Hussin Al-Amoudi in 1998, under SalaM Health Care Plc, the college had graduated 277 nurses at a diploma level free of charge.

Tagged: East Africa, Education, Ethiopia, Health

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