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Uganda: Nurses Celebrate in Lira
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The Monitor (Kampala)
16 May 2008
Posted to the web 15 May 2008
Hudson Apunyo
Lira
Nurses have called on the government to focus on Primary healthCare as a means of empowering the communities to effectively address their needs, health status and quality of their lives.
The President of the Uganda National Association for Nurses and Midwives, Janet Obuni made the remarks during the commemoration of the International Nurses Day in Lira on Monday.
The day is in honour of Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.
Minister of Lands Daniel Omara Atubo, who presided over the function, urged the nurses to use their association to lobby for better terms. "If you ask to speak to the President, he will give you audience," he said.
Mr Atubo urged the nurses not to be discouraged by ridicule and abuse. "Don't be discouraged, be strict with the enforcement of your code of conduct," he said. Ms Obuni said the healthcare delivery system in Uganda is facing enormous challenges including poverty, low literacy rates, increasing disease burden and new disease emerging such as Ebola. She said nurses being the first point of contact are never recognised nor appreciated.
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"Often times, nurses are often subjected to abuse; physically, emotionally and psychologically sometimes by senior members of society," she said. "No nurse or midwife would love a mother, child or both to die." She said despite being the pivot of healthcare delivery, nurses are the most poorly paid civil servants in the health sector.
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