05/06/2023

96 new Lao graduate nurses licensed with cooperation from JICA

Lao nursing graduates who passed national examinations for nurses and completed an 8-month professional internship program in at the eight provincial hospitals in Oudomxay, XiengKhuang, Luang Prabang, Vientiane, Khammuan, Savannakhet, Salavan, Champasak have received full licenses following a recent handover.

Nursing licenses were handed over to sixteen nurse representatives by Healthcare Professional Council president Prof. Ponmek Dalaloy, JICA Laos chief representative Mr. Nagase Toshio and Nursing and Midwifery Board chair Mdm. Phengdy Inthapanith at the event.

A representative of the graduating cohort expressed how proud she was to be recognized as a professional nurse. She appreciated the commitment and support, especially from mentor nurses, during her professional internship program.

      

Worldwide, International Nurses Day 2023 comes at a time when more nurses, at the heart of the response to the pandemic, have become stressed, burnt out, absent, and on strike.

In Laos, the current economic situation is critically impacting the financial resources available for strategic investment in improving the quality of human resources, especially in the emerging generation of nurses.

As the pandemic has made underlying poor working conditions and unsafe staffing concerns even more apparent, the ICN stresses that there can be no effective recovery and rebuilding of the healthcare system without sufficient investment in well-supported nurses.