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By Amos Okioma, Yenagoa
The wife of the Bayelsa State governor, Mrs. Gloria Ebibomo Diri, says she would do her best to ensure that, the challenges facing the nursing profession in the state are tackled and reduced to the barest minimum.
Mrs. Diri, who made pledge when the Nurse Stakeholders Forum visited her in Government House, Yenagoa, noted that, as a trained nurse herself, she was well aware of the challenges and would do everything within her powers to ensure that they are tackled.
She however commended nurses in the state for living up to the demands of the profession, despite the seeming inadequacies, pointing out that, they have continued to demonstrate discipline and total commitment in the daily discharge of their functions at health facilities across the state.
Mrs. Diri used the occasion to urge the body of Nurse Stakeholders, made up of the Nurse leaders forum, as well as the National Association of Nurses and Midwives Executive Committees, Bayelsa State chapter, to pray fervently for the Senator Douye Diri-led administration and her office to be focused in the task of delivering the dividends of democracy to the people of the state.
Earlier in an address read on behalf of the Nurse Stakeholders by Mrs. Ebiowou Koku-Obiyai, of the state House of Assembly, the joint body congratulated Senators Douye Diri and Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo on their divine emergence as governor and deputy governor of the state.
The body of Nurse Stakeholders, which was led by the director of Nursing Services in the state Ministry of Health, Mrs. Cynthia Boufini, appealed to the wife of the state governor to use her exalted position to facilitate the automatic employment of graduating nurses and midwives, immediate upgrading of the existing hostel accommodation and the construction of more befitting hostel accommodation, including toilet facilities at the state School of Nursing, Tombia.
They also called for the provision of buses to ease transportation from the School of Nursing to designated hospitals in the state as well as the need for internships among others.
