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--- Begin Message ---418 nurses left Uganda in 2003
By Martin Luther Oketch
July 9, 2004
KAMPALA- Statistics available at the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council indicate that some 418 nurses and midwives left the country for work in other countries.
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development Mr Ralph Ocan has said.
This was in a presentation made for him by the director of Labour, Mr Claudius Olweny at Hotel Africana in a sanitation seminar for the nurses and midwives who want to work in England yesterday.
“Information available at the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council indicates that as of October 31, 2003, it had 33,831 members. Out of this 12,580 were serving the public in state managed institutions.
A total of 418 nurses and midwives are reported to have left for work in other countries. The rest are either employed in the private sector, self-employed or unemployed,’’ Ocan said.
He said on average 1,400 nurses and midwives qualify every year from institutions. Unfortunately, the domestic labour market cannot absorb them all.
He said the Ministry is in the process of formalising migration of labour by establishing modalities through bilateral agreements and regulatory framework with other countries.
© 2004 The Monitor Publications
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