Group Collaborates With NIDCO On Capacity Building For 200 Nurses
Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora
Commission (NIDCOM) has called on Nigerian Diaspora Medicals to key into
the Diasporan Project Health Initiative (DPHI), of uplifting the
the healthcare system in Nigeria.
Association, UK (NNCAUK), led by Ms. Wendy Odutola, President, in
company of Pastor Peters Omoragbon and Mr Jide Bankole in Abuja.
The Chairman commended the team, for utilizing their time, resources and
finance, assuring the NNCAUK members of the Commission’s moral support
in future endeavors.
Earlier, Wendy Odutola said that the organization holds an annual
conference for 200 nurses and midwives on capacity building.
She announced that the 2020 edition of the conference will hold in two
states in Nigeria; Lagos (Jan 31- Feb. 5) and Abuja (July 12-19).
Odutola said that the first leg of the event will include the flag-off
ceremony on Wednesday, January 29th in Abuja, with the theme entitled
“Nigeria 2020: Year of Nurse and Midwife” by the WHO.
The flag-off event will take place at the Gwagwalada Teaching Hospital with dignitaries such as the Hon. Minister of Health, the Chairman,
Midwife and Nursing Association of Nigeria, the President of NAN, the
Chairman/CEO, NiDCOM, as well as, other stakeholders.
Odutola added that the event will encourage nurses, midwives and other
stakeholders, home and abroad, to network and brainstorm on the way
forward in the nursing and midwifery sector in Nigeria.
The NNCAUK President said that the organization is collaborating with
some countries, such as the Gulf States, Canada, the USA, Austria,
Switzerland and Australia, to bring change to the country by
transferring skills to their colleagues, empowering, raising awareness
and give back to Nigerian nurses to get them to international standard.
