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Abu Dhabi: Members of the Federal National Council have sounded alarm over the limited number of Emiratis in nursing profession.
The House members said the Ministry of Health must work to raise the low status of nursing in the UAE and develop nursing programmes in the country.
More Emiratis, they said, need to join the nursing profession along with other Arab and foreign nurses, to help overcome cultural obstacles to providing medical care.
Rashid Musabbah Al Kindi, a member from Abu Dhabi, said there was a misconception that nursing was an unskilled profession, entailed long and odd working hours and did not pay well.
Dr Hanif Hassan, the Minister of Health, admitted there was a problem.
"The Ministry of Health has been trying to give a boost to the profession and its institutes since 2007. There is growing demand for Emirati nurses as they account for only eight per cent in the ministry and four per cent across the country."
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