A health official urged female candidates to take up nursing saying that the nursing school had a special consideration for them.
Magdalen Awor is the Director of the first year Rumbek Nursing School based at Mapuordit hospital, in Lakes State.Ms. Awor told Good News Radio that the institution targeted female trainees, describing them as more compassionate and able to stand the stress with patients.
She said Sudan was capable of producing what she described as “good nurses”.
Ms. Awor urged parents to send daughters to school.
She noted that men were more interested in becoming doctors than nurses.
Shadrack Nuer Machut, a student at Rumbek nursing school, confirmed the position of Ms. Awor. He said although he was training as a nurse, his dream was to become a medical doctor.
Kucha Marida Paulino, a female student from Nuba Mountains, said there were many sick people and no qualified nurses to take care of them.
Ms. Kucha encouraged girls to go to school and aim beyond primary education in order to to choose what she described as “right career” for their future.
Rumbek Nursing School, the very first nursing institution in Lakes state preparing Certified Community Nurses, was officially inaugurated last Saturday.
First year students attend lessons at Mapuordit catholic hospital while their counterparts in second year are in the new site inaugurated in Rumbek.