About 396 infants out of every 1000 live births in the north eastern Nigeria die before reaching, or at the age of five in the region comprising Borno, Adamawa, Taraba, Bauchi, Gombe and Yobe States, a study has shown.
A consultant obstetrician & gynecologist with the University of Maiduguri Dr Calvin Chama disclosed this in his […]

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 Capital and Coast District Health Board has scrapped its offer of $100 vouchers to women who leave hospital within six hours of giving birth as a survey warns of a midwifery crisis. The board made the offer this week to deal with a critical shortage of maternity beds expected next month - but quickly backtracked amid […]

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In today’s Question Period Manitoba Liberal Leader Dr.Jon Gerrard urged the government to break down the barriers to educational advancement and to adopt a more effective method by which Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) can become Registered Nurses (RN) in a shorter time period.  Currently the wait period for upgrading from a LPN to a RN […]

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In the most basic sense, the current global nursing shortage is simply a widespread and dangerous lack of skilled nurses who are needed to care for individual patients and the population as a whole. The work of the world’s estimated 12 million nurses is not well understood, even by educated members of society. But nursing […]

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The shortage of nurses in Manitoba has crept back upwards in the last two years after it dipped to a low of just six per cent in 2004. The latest information provided by Manitoba Health shows in 2006 there were 1,022 vacant nursing jobs across the province, including both permanent and term positions.
That number […]

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Despite a series of innovative programs to solve the problem, there remains a serious shortage of health-care workers, particularly nurses, in Rhode Island. Health care and social assistance is the largest employment sector in the state, employing 75,900 people, according to an October employment report from the state Department of Labor and Training. “We’re looking at […]

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A charity dedicated to raising awareness of meningitis and supporting people affected by this dreadful disease is closing down its operations in New Zealand after six successful years. The Meningitis Trust will close its New Zealand office on Friday 21st December 2007.  Recognising the ongoing support needs of people affected by meningitis, the Trust is […]

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One month after the Otago and Southland District Health Boards’ joint recruitment drive to the United Kingdom, the DHBs have confirmed they have had their first two employment offers accepted and a further ten job offers have also been made.
 The “healthdownsouth” joint recruitment drive took place during October, with an Otago Southland recruitment team […]

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The general surgeon said Western Health won’t be granting nurses annual leave at the Corner Brook facilities over the Christmas season until 7 a.m. on the day they want off.
That means nurses in the operating room and the endoscopy suite and other specialty areas won’t be able to travel to see their families over the […]

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