Gambia’s
Nurses and Midwives Council –NMC- has issued a statement warning all the Nurse
attendant training schools in the country that are operating illegally to
regularize their status immediately.
Registrar
of the Council Mafugi Bojang said it has come to their attention that certain
Nurse Attendant Training Schools are operating in the country using
unauthorised nursing and nurses for their trainees.
He
said as an established office responsible for regulating Nursing and Midwifery
Training and practices in The Gambia, the Nurses and Midwives Council is deeply
troubled by this unfortunate development.
Mr.
Bojang said there are only five recognized training institutions for Nursing
and Midwifery in The Gambia which are the University of The Gambia, Department
of Nursing and Reproductive Health (BSc Nursing programme) at UTG and Edward
Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Banjul, American International University
West Africa College of Nursing (BSc Nursing programme), Gambia College School
of Nursing, Midwifery and State Enrolled Nursing and Midwifery Training school
(SEN/M) and Community Health Nurse Training school (CHN/M).
He
said any other institution purportedly training nurse attendants or trained
nurses referring to them as Nurses is operating outside the laws of this
country and must cease spreading such misleading information with immediate
effect.
“The
general public is further informed that who so ever sends his/ her children to
any such schools other than the ones mentioned will be doing so at their own
peril.”