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In Celebration of International Nurses Day, the University of Bahrain President Lauds the Nursing Cadres’ Role in Confronting Coronavirus Pandemic
Sakhir – University of Bahrain – Mansoor Alwanni
May 12, 2022
The President of the University of Bahrain, Dr. Jawaher bint Shaheen Al-Mudhahka, expressed appreciation for the nursing staff and the role they play in enhancing health and treatment services in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Dr. Al-Mudhahka also lauded the medical cadres in the Kingdom of Bahrain’s great role, particularly the nursing staff, in confronting the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
On the International Nursing Day which falls on May 12 of each year, Dr. Al-Mudhahka expressed pride in the achievements of the College of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Bahrain, which has been providing the nursing sector with qualified and trained nursing cadres for more than forty years. Dr. Al-Mudhahka congratulated male and female nurses, professors, and students, who shape the future of nursing in the Kingdom of Bahrain, wishing them continued progress and development, to serve their country and their profession, which is characterized with unlimited giving.
Dr. Al-Mudhaka stressed that the wise leadership of the Kingdom of Bahrain pays great attention to this vital sector in the health system of the Kingdom of Bahrain. She added that this is evident in praising the role of the nursing staff on several occasions, the most recent of which took place in the session of the esteemed Cabinet held on May 9, 2022.
For her part, the Dean of the College of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Bahrain, Dr. Lina Mohammed Khonji, praised the academic staff at the College for their efforts that contributed to the graduation of batches of nursing cadres. She stated, “The college has graduated more than 5700 male and female nurses over 46 years.”
Dr. Khonji noted, “The Nursing Department of the College of Health and Sport Sciences has been a WHO collaborating center for the development of nursing in the Middle East since 1990, being the first of its kind in the Arab Gulf and Middle East region and is still playing this important role. This has contributed, at the local and Gulf levels, to the graduation of many batches of nurses in the field of general nursing and various specialties throughout more than forty years, including midwifery and obstetrics, mental health nursing, community health nursing, cardiac care nursing, emergency nursing, and advanced adult health nursing.
She added that the Nursing Department at the University of Bahrain has played an important role at both the regional and international levels, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, in developing nursing in the fields of education and safe clinical practice as well as improving nursing competencies, in an effort to achieve the World Health Organization’s goal related to universal health coverage and sustainable development goals, based on joint collaboration with local and regional partners.
Dr. Khonji stressed the need to act on the World Health Organization report’s recommendations, which focused on the importance of investing in accelerating the pace of nursing education, and working to increase the number of graduates to solve the problem of shortage in nursing cadres, which most countries suffer from, through setting clear future plans, to attract more male and female students to study nursing, and to provide new educational opportunities in the fields of the nursing profession, to fulfill Bahrain’s needs for the workforce in the health sector, and to enhance ways to improve the health system of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
The Dean referred, “The University of Bahrain paid great attention to preparing future leaders of nurses, and assumed the national and social responsibility to meet the needs of the Kingdom of Bahrain for highly qualified nursing cadres, through developing its programs, focusing on the latest strategies of teaching and learning in nursing, integrating modern technology and high-quality clinical simulation methods, to contribute to the nursing profession development, through university education methodology and providing safe training opportunities and clinical practice based on scientific research findings, to serve the Bahraini community and achieve the Kingdom of Bahrain’s economic vision 2030.
The theme for this year’s International Nursing Day was set as “Nurses: A Voice to Lead: Investing in Nursing and Respecting Rights to Secure Global Health,” to stress the active role of the nursing staff in the health system of countries, the importance of national and global investment, the leadership role of manpower in the nursing sector to advance health services and nursing care for the peoples, and achieve the goal of comprehensive health for everyone.
