Hakima Health Academy College in Heiban County of Nuba Mountains last Thursday graduated its third batch of 171 community health workers.
The graduates took oath before the audience to carry out their duties faithfully in different fields they would be deployed to serve in, Radio Voice of Peace reported.
The graduate’s representative, Bakri Saleh appreciated their teachers for training them and that words a lone were not enough for the great effort their teachers made.
Hakima Health Academy Director Ismail Dabura said the 171 graduates comprise 67 females and 104 males with four teachers, four cooks and three individuals taking care of their garden.
He explained that the performance of the Academy remains excellent, citing lack of light for students to revise at night.
The Secretariat Health representative Tutu Turkash urged the graduates to adhere to medical regulation and deal with the community responsibly, advising them not to give over dose or under dose to patients to avoid resistant.
He instructed the students to take science seriously saying that drugs change with the time and that previous years’ drugs cannot treat current diseases.
Regional authorities and members of local organizations in the Nuba Mountains attended the graduation.