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...the world Health Organization (WHO), the International Council Nurses (ICN) and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), was a high level global meeting on issues that are central to strengthening the nursing and midwifery services. The consultation was called to emphasise the crucial contribution of nurses and midwives to health systems, to the health of the people they serve, and to the efforts to achieve the internationally agreed upon health-related development goals.
Participants came from nursing and midwifery organisations in Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, New Zealand, Oman, Singapore and Yemen. The Midwives Association of Pakistan was represented by Mrs Imtiaz Kamal, President. From WHO-HQ came Dr Jean Yan, Chief Scientist for Nursing and Midwifery, from ICN Judith Oulton and from ICM Kathy Herschderfer and Della Sherratt. A number of technical papers were presented:
Scaling-up nursing and midwifery capacity
This paper from the Office of Nursing and Midwifery, Department of Human Resources for Health, WHO, reiterated that the shortage of adequately trained health workers has become a persistent world-wide problem. Stress and insecurity; increased technological and consumer demands; enormous work burdens; risks of injury, illness and threats to security all adversely affect health workers and their willingness or ability to work.
There is a critical shortage of...
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