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CIEGO DE ÁVILA, September 9 (Mirley Delgado, APLA / www.cubanet.org)
- Officials of the provincial health directorate in Ciego de Ávila
province have started a door-to-door campaign to recruit students to study
nursing.
Officials sent a team of nurses out during August and the first two days of
September, in an effort to increase the number of nurses in the province. The
only requirement for prospective students of the two-and-a-half year course is a
pre-university education.
"The lack of nurses in Ciego de Ávila is the principal cause of
the campaign, but nursing graduates give up their careers to go work in better
paying jobs, because the Ministry of Public Health pays them too little and they
have to work in horrible conditions," said one person in the field who did
not want to be identified.
The same person said that in health facilities where Cubans are treated, the
doctors, technicians and other employees receive very poor food and no material
incentives. There is also little in the way of cleaning products and protection,
putting employees’ health at risk.
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