GOL committed to rural workers - Sep 26, 2007


SIRLEAF STRESSES GOVERNMENT’S COMMITMENT TO RURAL WORKERS…
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf says, the current Liberian Government is committed to providing incentives for rural workers beyond salary level.
At a meeting with nurses and members of the Pharmaceutical Association of Liberia, President Johnson-Sirleaf called for the setting up of a criterion to conduct assessment of nurses’ aide schools.
Tuesday’s meeting was part of the President’s executive consultations with national stakeholders.
The Liberian leader spoke of national development initiatives, expressing government’s desire to have a multi-year plan to fast track the developmental process.
For her part, the President of the Nurses Association of Liberia, Madam Olive Hunter Dwannah, said there was a need for government to periodically assess all nursing schools through-out the country.
Dr. Dwannah also stressed the need to revise the national curriculum for all categories of nursing.
The nurses further challenged the government to harmonize all national health curriculums and called for the encouragement of young nurses to work in the leeward counties to help improve the health delivery system in rural Liberia.
The Nurses and Pharmaceutical Association then thanked the government for the tuition-free scholarship program offered to students of the Tubman National Institute of Medical Arts (TNIMA).
The occasion was witnessed by Deputy Health Minister for Social Welfare, Joseph Gebro, and Assistant Health Minister, Jesse Duncan.