Nurses - Uganda Multimedia News & Information https://www.weinformers.com Politics, Health, Sceince, Business, Agriculture, Culture, Tourism, Women, Men, Oil, Sports Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:10:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Parliamentary health committee decries state of public health facilities https://www.weinformers.com/2017/09/14/parliamentary-health-committee-decries-state-of-public-health-facilities/ https://www.weinformers.com/2017/09/14/parliamentary-health-committee-decries-state-of-public-health-facilities/#respond Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:10:15 +0000 http://www.weinformers.com/?p=49664 The parliamentary health committee report released to parliament on public health facilities in Kampala district and eastern Uganda has exposed rot in performance of the ministry of health over health service delivery to public. While presenting to parliament a health report the chairperson of the parliamentary health committee who is the MP for Bukuya county […]

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While presenting to parliament a health report the chairperson of the parliamentary health committee who is the MP for Bukuya county Dr.Micheal Bukenya ,noted that 60% of health workers do not have uniforms and as result some people are masquerading as health workers and extorting money from patients.
MPs reported that such cases are most common in Iganga General Referral hospital and recommended that the ministry to  health to procure uniforms of health workers tagged with their names to minimize extortion of money from patients by fake health workers. The committee observed that medicine and medical supplies stock out as
a national problem and in most cases is caused by some individuals who stole drugs and sell it on black market for their selfish benefit, the committee hence asked that the ministry of  health to have tough sanctions against those engaged in the theft medicines in hospitals.

The poor state of Iganga hospital

The Health committee also recommends for increase of health workers lunch allowances. The MPs observed that since 1996, health workers continue to receive 66,000 and 44,000 shillings for Doctors and nurses respectively as
their monthly lunch allowances yet the cost of living and inflation has gone up.
The committee members recommended that lunch allowance for nurses, Doctors and other health workers be revised to 288,000 shillings to cater lunch at a unit cost of 12,000 shillings.

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]]> https://www.weinformers.com/2017/09/14/parliamentary-health-committee-decries-state-of-public-health-facilities/feed/ 0 Nurses fail exams, government orders them to go back to school https://www.weinformers.com/2012/07/16/nurses-fail-exams-government-orders-them-to-go-back-to-school/ https://www.weinformers.com/2012/07/16/nurses-fail-exams-government-orders-them-to-go-back-to-school/#respond Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:34:18 +0000 http://www.weinformers.net/?p=24277   Ugandan candidates who sat nursing exams last year performed poorly and the ministry of education has requested them to reseat the examinations. The exam results were released Monday. The candidates sat the exams last year in November. Out of the 2,295 candidates who sat for final examinations, from 33 accredited nursing schools in the […]

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Ugandan candidates who sat nursing exams last year performed poorly and the ministry of education has requested them to reseat the examinations. The exam results were released Monday.

The candidates sat the exams last year in November. Out of the 2,295 candidates who sat for final examinations, from 33 accredited nursing schools in the country, majority of the candidates performed poorly.

The candidates included diploma and certificates nursing students. It was only three candidates who got distinctions, and only 647 passed with credit scores.

The examinations for the nursing were conducted by the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examinations Board. The Board runs two examinations in a single year; that is in May and November. Diploma candidates write their exams in November while Certificate Candidates sit theirs in May.

The executive secretary ofUganda Nurses and Midwives Examinations Board, Helen Mukakarisa has attributed the decline in the students’ performance to the big number of public institutions which could be having the shortage of qualified tutors.

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]]> https://www.weinformers.com/2012/07/16/nurses-fail-exams-government-orders-them-to-go-back-to-school/feed/ 0 Ministry of Education releases Nurses and Midwifery results https://www.weinformers.com/2011/12/21/ministry-of-education-releases-nurses-and-midwifery-results/ https://www.weinformers.com/2011/12/21/ministry-of-education-releases-nurses-and-midwifery-results/#respond Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:43:19 +0000 http://www.weinformers.net/?p=17502 The Uganda National Examination Board has today released the 2011 nurses’ examination results indicating a general improvement in performance. Announcing the results, the Executive Secretary of the Nurses Examinations Board, Helen Kataratambi said that a total of 2433 candidates sat for the exams with 49 passing with distinctions, and only 41 were ungraded. She has […]

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]]> The Uganda National Examination Board has today released the 2011 nurses’ examination results indicating a general improvement in performance.

Announcing the results, the Executive Secretary of the Nurses Examinations Board, Helen Kataratambi said that a total of 2433 candidates sat for the exams with 49 passing with distinctions, and only 41 were ungraded.

She has decried the shortage of tutors in all the 37 nursing institutions across the country which she says is failing the operations of the institutions.

Receiving the results from the executive secretary, Education and Sports minister Jesica Alupo urged UNEB to always make use of the little available resources to produce good quality nurses if the health sector is to grow.

She also revealed that government has already approved the appointment of 80 tutors to be deployed in all the nursing institutions across the country effective next year.

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