Mrs Bunmi Fesobi, the Head of Nurses, Kuje General Hospital, has called on the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), to employ more nurses to enhance healthcare service delivery in the area.
Fesobi made the appeal at a reception, organised for the retirement of three nurses in the Hospital after 35years in active service with FCT Hospital Management Board, Abuja.
According to her, employing more medical practitioners will help in the ongoing fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, cholera outbreak and other related illnesses affecting the residents of Kuje and the entire people of FCT.
She advised the nurses, resident doctors and health workers to work in harmony to achieve a common goal in the hospitals.
The matron also thanked the retirees, wishing them well in their future endeavours and prayed for God’s guidance and sound health as they pulled out of service for the younger nurses to tap from their worth of experience.
Responding, one of the retirees, Mrs Helen Gabriel, thanked God for the opportunity given to her to serve the government for 35 years as a nurse.
Gabriel advised younger nurses to put their trust in God and take the nursing profession as a ministry to help the sick as they took their work diligently with the fear of God.
Another retiree, Hajia Farmata Bukar, said that she was happy and thanked God to be among the retirees after 35 years of active service in the nursing profession.
She said that she had a good working relationship with the doctors in saving lives in the hospital.
She advised the nurses to love their profession and patients, urging them to take their work seriously, “do the job with a clean mind and not to cheat anyone during and after their duties’’.
The highlight of the programme was the presentation of gifts and awards to the retirees for their commitment to duties during their years of service in the hospital. (NAN)