The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria has inducted 274 graduates of Nursing Science from foreign universities into the nursing profession in the country.
They were inducted yesterday during the council’s 8th induction ceremony for foreign trained nurses in Abuja.
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Speaking during the ceremony in Abuja, the Registrar of the council, Dr Faruk Umar Abubakar, said the inductees graduated from foreign institutions in 17 countries and had their adaptation programme at the Department of Nursing in 13 Nigerian universities.
The countries are China, Cyprus, Egypt, Ghana, India, Iran, Jordan, Malaysia, Niger Republic, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and the United States of America.
He said that similarly, 1,537 graduate nurses from 17 universities in the country were inducted this year while 9,137 professional nurses and midwives graduated from colleges of nursing sciences across the country.
