By Staff Reporter
About 3260 unemployed nursing officers in the country have petitioned the ministry of health to enroll them into the public service, as some of them are alleging that they have stayed for more than three years without being employed.
Speaking during a press briefing in Blantyre, Frank Kamwendo, leader of the grouping said it is very pathetic that public hospitals are operating with limited numbers of nurses while the country has more trained people for the work.
Kamwendo also complained that nursing officers have been facing emotional torture and embarrassment during walk in interviews administered in different councils across Malawi where he said nursing officers are being ruled out for being overqualified.
Furthermore, Kamwendo said the grouping has also expressed concern over Pharmacy and Medicine Regulatory Authority (PMRA) revised act which bars nursing officers from using their licenses to open their own medicine stores.
According to Kamwendo the nursing officers have also petitioned ministry of health to provide them with relevant documentation for them to find employment in other countries, if their own government has failed to give them jobs failure to do so the grouping says it will take unspecified action.
According to Malawi’s National Organization for Nurses and Midwives, currently, more than 3,000 trained nurses in Malawi are unemployed.
