Gov't hails Nightingale Institute for best results

The Inspector General at the Northwest Governor’s Office, Charles Ivo Makoge, has urged private and public health training institutions in the Northwest to emulate the example of Florence Nightingale Higher Institute of Health and Biomedical Sciences.

The institute recorded the best results in the public examinations organised by the Ministry of Public Health.

Makoge was speaking during the graduation and prize award ceremony, which took place at the Bamenda Congress Hall recently.

“With such results, there are no doubts that the products of this school will offer quality health care to Cameroonians wherever they find themselves.” He said.

He appealed to the graduating trainees to be assiduous like Florence Nightingale of old in serving the patients.

The Director of the institution, Thomas Tazoh, said the school is performing excellently in public exams in Cameroon.

These good results, he said, is due to well train, committed staff and the Board of Directors.

“The graduates of this institute will be able to provide basic healthcare services and implement the Millennium Development Goals, which focus on the reduction of child mortality, improve maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases” Tazoh remarked.

According to him, the institution was created with the vision of training and educating young and competent health personnel, capable of providing individuals, families and communities with quality health care services. The health sector, he said, has enormous challenges, amongst which are; inadequate trained personnel, infrastructures, accessibility and poverty.

The Director said with the high unemployment rate in Cameroon, his hope is to see his graduates find employment in both the public and private sectors. Tazoh appealed to the Ministry of Health to use the graduates serve the nation.

He further thanked the Minister of Public Health for the constant supervision and the subvention given to the institution, but solicits for an increase in subvention in the next budget.

In an academic discourse, Rose Njini, a PHD student from the University of Bonn-Germany said Florence Nightingale’s legacy is not only important, but it remains fundamental because it touches on the scope of contemporary Nurses, nursing care and nursing research.

Florence Nightingale, as role model of this institution, is considered the founder of modern nursing.