ISLAMABAD: The International Nurses Day (IND) will be observed on Friday (today) across the country with the theme ‘Our Nurses, Our Future’.
The day is celebrated around the world every year onMay 12 which is the birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale. According to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report ‘State of the World’s Nursing 2020: Investing in Education, Jobs and Leadership’, nurses and midwives make up more than half of the health workforce in WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean region.
In the federal capital, Islamabad Medical and Dental College (IMDC) and Islamabad Nursing College (INC) organised an event to commemorate International Nurses Day 2023 with an aim to pay tribute to the nursing community for their invaluable services to humanity.
A large number of nurses, nursing students, nursing faculty, doctors, other medical professionals and people from different walks of life participated in the event where tableau, songs, quiz, parody skits and poetry segments were performed.
The audience learnt a great deal about the profession of nursing from these activities and from the insightful speeches of the management and nursing professionals.
Dr Akbar Niazi Teaching Hospital (ANTH) Chairman Dr Ghulam Akbar Khan Niazi, IMDC Principal Prof Dr Syed Irfan Ahmed, Chief Nursing Officer Riffat Farzana along with other top management officials were also present on the occasion to acknowledge and appreciate nurses’ dedication, compassion, and unwavering commitment towards providing exceptional care to patients.
A speaker Yasir Khan said nurses were the backbone of the healthcare system and it was impossible to ensure the delivery of quality healthcare without well-trained nurses.
“INC is working on increasing its capacity to produce a larger number of trained nurses to fill the gap of nursing care in Pakistan,” he said.
Published in Dawn, May 12th, 2023
