Medics asked to respect patients
Mar 23, 2010
MEDICAL workers should respect patients and handle them in a humane way, Francis Okinyal, the commissioner for business technical vocational education and training in the education ministry, has said.
By Charles Kakamwa
MEDICAL workers should respect patients and handle them in a humane way, Francis Okinyal, the commissioner for business technical vocational education and training in the education ministry, has said.
“Mind your behaviour and respect patients,†he said, while addressing students of the Jinja School of Nursing and Midwifery on Friday.
Okinyal, who was speaking during a farewell party organised by the institute for the outgoing principal, Helen Mukakarisa, urged students to emulate her by being disciplined.
Mukakarisa, who has served the institute for two years, was last year appointed executive secretary of the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examinations Board.
She advised her successor, Safinah Museene, to continue counselling and guiding the students as well as establishing a good working relationship with the board of governors and the guild council.
The chairman of the governing council, Dr. Benon Wanume, credited Mukakarisa for putting in place a strategic plan for the institute and negotiating for the appointment of the institute’s tutors by the Government.
He said through Mukakarisa’s efforts, the institute got more buildings including one for training paediatric nurses and a 69-seater bus.
MEDICAL workers should respect patients and handle them in a humane way, Francis Okinyal, the commissioner for business technical vocational education and training in the education ministry, has said.
“Mind your behaviour and respect patients,†he said, while addressing students of the Jinja School of Nursing and Midwifery on Friday.
Okinyal, who was speaking during a farewell party organised by the institute for the outgoing principal, Helen Mukakarisa, urged students to emulate her by being disciplined.
Mukakarisa, who has served the institute for two years, was last year appointed executive secretary of the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examinations Board.
She advised her successor, Safinah Museene, to continue counselling and guiding the students as well as establishing a good working relationship with the board of governors and the guild council.
The chairman of the governing council, Dr. Benon Wanume, credited Mukakarisa for putting in place a strategic plan for the institute and negotiating for the appointment of the institute’s tutors by the Government.
He said through Mukakarisa’s efforts, the institute got more buildings including one for training paediatric nurses and a 69-seater bus.