With the 2022 matriculation and capping ceremony, one hundred and seventy-five,Year One students of College of Nursing Sciences, Saint Joseph’s Hospital, Adazi-Nnukwu in Anaocha Local Government Area have become full-fledged students of the institution.
The one hundred and twenty that started Preliminary Training Session, programme in Nursing department of the college, seventy-five were successful, while in Midwifery department, one hundred of the one hundred and twenty-nine students were successful for the ceremony that commenced with pontifical holy mass officiated by the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Reverend Paulinus Ezeokafor.
In his homily during the Eucharistic celebration, Bishop Ezeokafor reminded the matriculants that services of nurses and midwives are necessities for a healthy living across the globe, the reason they should work hard to justify resources spent on them, as well as quality of training they receive at the institution.
While urging healthcare service providers to continue serving humanity according to the dictates of their profession, the prelate called on the government to do more to address challenges in the Nigerian health sector to further stem the tide of brain drain in the sector.
Bishop Ezeokafor noted that service of nurses and midwives are highly sought after, even outside the country, but asked successful ones to stay back and help improve the nation’s health sector.
While commending the school management for infrastructural and other development in the institution, the Bishop, who is also the Proprietor of the college, assured to continued support to the institution.
Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Afam Obidike, who announced that Governor Chukwuma Soludo administration will soon direct employment of more people in the primary healthcare sector, noted that the one hundred and seventy-five matriculants is part of efforts to ensure steady supply of quality services of nurses and midwives.
Dr. Obidike maintained that Governor Soludo is passionate about improving the health sector; evidenced by salary increment for healthcare providers, which he said has helped to prevent industrial disharmony.
The administrator of the College, Reverend Father Jude Igboka, Provost, Mrs Francisca Atakulu, Head of Nursing Department, Mrs Marymichael Ezenwuba, and President, Alumni Association of the College, Mrs Ngozi Onwukaike, who noted that the college has continued to produce quality nurses and midwives that are flying the institution’s flag all over the world, advised the matriculants to work harder for the tasks ahead.
They called on the government at different levels to pay attention to challenges in the health sector, reminding that the poor masses are at the receiving end of the brain drain; occasioned by poor economic and working conditions of healthcare workers.
Two of the matriculants, Miss Prisca Obi and Miss Catherine Ifebuko, said the ceremony is one of the greatest things that have happened in their lives, promising to do their best to improve healthcare services upon graduation.
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