Shortage Of Manpower Hits College Of Nursing/Midwifery Vom
Yakubu Busari
The Provost of College of Nursing, Midwifery Vom, Mr. Luka Dung Gaji has attributed the major challenges of the institutions to the shortage of manpower as one of the factors challenging the effective running of the college in recent time.
He disclosed that college of Nursing /Midwifery has been hit by the shortage of manpower needed for development to boost the need of the State’s rural cottage hospitals.
The provost in an interview with our correspondent on Monday in anticipation of a team of the National body of the Nursing, Midwifery of Nigeria to Plateau State.
He said with the lifting of the ban on employment by Governor Simon Lalong administration the institutions believed that they can overcome the problem associated with manpower of the college.
Mr. Dung urged the state to help in completing the permanent sites of the college to enable them commenced development of some training colleges which is scattered across the state.
According to him, there are many of the retirees and some even died, “so we need a total replacement, he applauded the rescue ambassador for lifting the ban in the employment of staff which might allow the college to employ.
The college was established by the mission Hospital by Dr. Percy Barren in 1922 to train hospital workers who will manage the various units of the growing hospitals that led to the initial training programme, which started with the training of two women, Kangyang and Garos were taught on basic hygiene and Midwifery.
He maintained that the institution on the issue of modern Midwifery started in the late 1940 and in 1950 when young women are trained in two years they will sit for the government exams to qualify as grade Il midwives.
“We are expecting a team of Midwifery and Nursing association of Nigeria, we had the accreditation sometimes in 2015 since then, we are now going to be accrediting another batch of professionals to encourage and improve standard treatment of manpower.
Gaji explained further that the main problem of the college is that of structure and physical facilities to fix the college to meet up the international standard for training and retraining of workforce.
The provost said since he came on board there has never been any problem of cultism, “we are facing lives so we take the issue of cultism very serious but any student found wanting would be sent away.
He lamented that the problems of manpower are a national challenge where most government Hospitals are suffering it today.
We appeal to the national body to increase the numbers of students admitted into Midwifery, nursing to improve from 50 to 100 each to reduce the yearning for health care workers and to also upgrade our enrollment too.
