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urban planner
urban planner
9 years ago

You should have a conversation with the ministry of health and the ministry of Labour and the ministry of planning and Economic Development..
Most importantly, how are you going to incentivise the nursing profession? I advise you to look up nursing stats at the us department of labour and particularly the health profession and itss #future job gtowth projections.
Lack of nurses is a reflection of lack of incentives in our country. What are you doing to keep nurses in malawi.

Nankungwi
Nankungwi
9 years ago

LEARN TO LOOK AFTER YOUR NURSES, THEY WILL STAY IN COUNTRY

Hum
Hum
9 years ago

Shortage of nurses true but what of cleaners?why should patients’ guardIans be made toilet cleaners?hospital management take note or u are saying ur allocations do not include sanitation contracts?

fikisa
fikisa
9 years ago

The problem cannot be solved by introducing Masters or PhD programmes. The fact is that nurses do not receive incentives to keep them in the service. This is worsened by the fact that there is a huge demand for nurses in other countries such as the UK and though salaries are low in such countries, they cannot compare with our salaries. The lesser evil therefore is for nurses to migrate. Inasmuch as Malawi cannot compete with the UK in terms of salaries, there are still ways in which serving as a nurse in Malawi would be attractive than elsewhere or… Read more »

sera
sera
9 years ago

many nurse technicians graduate but eventually change professions because of the treatment they get from both the environment and and the so called REGISTERED NURSES WHO DO NOT DO THE PRACTICAL WORK . as im talking 50% of them are in school ,30% quit and started new professions and only 20% continue to work. MUSOVENGE

ruth warren
ruth warren
9 years ago
Reply to  sera

Iwe ndiye wayankhula i think umazitsata za manursezi iwe mu nursing ndi profession imene imabowa pa malawi pano. Kuli azimayi obowa khalidwe ozunza ana a anzawo. Go ku KCN kuli azimayi ongowophyeza komanso Nzeru alibe. Guyz ithaweni Nursingyo simungatukuke ma leaders ake lack vision and have rusty munds and dont even like them. Nursing ndie kuti chani? kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk ntchito kupukuta mawindow baxi hahahahahah

Chonde-chonde
Chonde-chonde
9 years ago

Oh!!! What are you saying over in Malawi ??? We are on our as Nigerian nurses !!!! Pay us millions of kwachas !!! Oh, by the way, we will call also cussians the Phillipino nurses !!!!It is easy to get work permits in your country than in other countries. Just few kwachas to some officesrs in Bt and Lilongwe for 12PM m’memo then the deal is sealed !!!! The Nyasa guys do not put this until we get there!!!! You too will get something small for fanta!!!!

concerned
concerned
9 years ago

another problem is the situation with council examz. u say fresh graduating nurses cant work in the wards before they get lincences as a result these guys are just rotting in thier home in the name of waiting for council examz. i think it would be better if you might allow these guys to be in the wards beefing up the staff while they are waiting for teh examz. there a lot of fresh graduates in the communities who are jst staying saying they are waitng to write council examz, thats not fair

Nohakhelha
9 years ago

Vuto lake nurse mumawerengera apa KCN okha, enawa mumati ndi bed pans??

Nathaniel
Nathaniel
9 years ago

A lot of nurses have left the proffessional especially nurse te hnician who make up of 70 % of the said nurses many are being trained a health systems managers , at Com some r at Bunda doing nutrition some at chanco doing human resource and some at Livingstonia doing public health in the next 5 or so years to come the situation will come back to 1993 believe u me the situation on the is worse the pathetic thing is some NMTs who opt to re-write their msce and happen to beselected to other college other than kcn to… Read more »

kambani zithe
kambani zithe
9 years ago
Reply to  Nathaniel

Just clearing the air, the two year african university is for registered nurses who hold a diploma or certificate and registere as Registere Nurses in their home countries. African university is just making money out of these NMTs who have not read the university prospectus. the programme is not a bridging programme but rather a top up and Nurses council is right not to register those who have gone through this programme. some people are arguing that once NMT get this qualification he/she can work anywhere in the world, much as I understand that this qualification is recognised world wide,… Read more »

Nathaniel
Nathaniel
9 years ago

A lot of nurses have left the proffessional especially nurse te hnician who make up of 70 % of the said nurses many are being trained a health systems managers , at Com some r at Bunda doing nutrition some at chanco doing human resource and some at Livingstonia doing public health in the next 5 or so years to come the situation will come back to 1993 believe u me the situation on the is worse the pathetic thing is some NMTs who opt to re-write their msce and happen to beselected to other college other than kcn to… Read more »

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