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By Lydia Kukua Asamoah, RNG
Accra, April
11, RNG – Second International Conference on Leadership in Nursing and Midwifery,
that will enable decision-makers, high-ranking nurses and midwives
in Africa, the opportunity to discuss nursing practice to improve the continent
the provision of health care opened in Accra.
Near 400
delegates made up of registrars and directors of public and private sector nursing.
private sector in Ghana, Nigeria, Estwatini Kingdom, Zimbabwe, Kenya,
Botswana, Rwanda, Benin and South Africa, among others, participate.
The three days
The conference is organized by the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University
Ghana, in partnership with the Leadnurse Africa International Foundation, a
Non-profit organization working in five African countries, including Ghana.
Green energy
Healthcare Limited, also supports the conference.
Senior Nurse
Africa, was created by young nurses to help change the phase of nursing that
was characterized by a "negative public image" in modern times.
The nurses are
Be taken by reorientation, capacity building and other mentoring
programs to make them more effective in their role in the delivery of health care.
The conference,
therefore engages registrars and regulators of nursing institutions in
Africa, to discuss proper regulation and training of nurses
% of all health workers.
Ms. Tina Mensah,
The Deputy Minister of Health, in a speech read on her behalf, congratulated the
nurses for their role in providing primary health care to all communities, a
critical effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
She said the
The work of nurses and midwives has had a major impact on the achievement of other SDGs such as
as; education and poverty, all of which were considered social determinants
Health and the SDGs have given nurses the opportunity to apply their
know to create a healthier and better world.
Ms. Mensah urged
nurses and midwives to adopt and adopt collaborative strategies with
members of multidisciplinary health care teams to help ensure the
quality, cost-effective and evidence-based care, and better
the results.
Professor Lydia
Aziato, Acting Dean of the Faculty of Nursing and Obstetrics, in an opening address,
said that the issue of spirituality among Africans, finance and seasonal diseases,
major obstacles to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
"Spirituality
affects many of the Sustainable Development Goals as this can lead to poverty, poor education,
inequalities, with most wizards being women, an unhealthy working environment and
discord in communities, among others.
"I am from
see that the strong orientation of the African in terms of appeal to spirituality
for all of us to take a second look at our health system so we can
meet the spiritual needs of our customers.
"The
combination of Western medicine and the religio-cultural dimension will go a
long way to go to satisfy the African customer ".
Prof Aziato
also called for affordable health care for African people, especially for women
with bad cancer, which has been noted as the leading cause of cancer deaths
women on the continent, adding that national health insurance should
to be extended to take care of bad cancer treatment.
Mr. Collins
Ogbulu, executive director of LeadNurse Africa, said the conference served
as a conversation platform around nursing practice and as a way of
to contribute to health care appropriate to society.
Mr. Richmond
Dayo Johnson, chairman of LeadNurse Africa's advisory board, is congratulated for
participants for their conviction and determination to ensure that the practice of
nursing care has been improved.
He urged the nurses
hang on to the dream and pbadion of caring for and saving humanity.
Some participants
in their messages of goodwill, expressed the need for Africa to combine its efforts to
treat re-emerging diseases such as guinea worm, smallpox and chickenpox,
which, Africa had already treated, but back in some of the countries.
They said the
re-emerging diseases could hinder efforts to achieve the SDGs, if the world
has not joined with Africa to remedy the situation.
Some too
called for the need to intensify efforts to eradicate poverty on the
continent, which has become a major obstacle to access to quality health care
care.
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