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July 27, 2009 14:29 PM

Service Of Community Nurses In Sabah Vital

SANDAKAN, July 27 (Bernama) -- The role of community nurses in Sabah remains a vital and important aspect in ensuring health services to the people in Sabah, especially those in remote interior areas said deputy Health minister Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin.

Rosnah said the presence of community nurses and the services rendered by them was crucial since reaching remote areas in Sabah by road or by boats would be time consuming and difficult.

"The remain the eyes and ears of the Health Ministry in providing health services to the people," said Rosnah in her prepared speech for the opening a Health Ministry Training Institute convocation here Monday.

During the convocation, 502 graduates from the Sandakan Nursing College, Tawau Community Nurses College and Kota Kinabalu Health Science College received their diploma and certificates.

Rosnah added that the nursing profession was not only dominated or limited to women but that men had already started to venture into such practices.

She added that to cater for the demand of male nurses, the Allied Health Science College in Kota Kinabalu had started enrolling male nurses since January 2009.

-- BERNAMA

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