GAIA says it wants to engage government to find ways that will ensure that more new nurses are employed in the country’s hospitals.

Country Director for GAIA Joyce Jere said this in Phalombe during the graduation of nurses who have completed their training at Holy Family College of Nursing and Midwifery.

In his speech before presenting the new nurses with certificates, proprietor of the college, Archbishop Thomas Luke Msusa of the Archdiocese of Blantyre emphasized the need for the new nurses and other medical practitioners to be committed to serving the sick in the country.

The new nurses have arrived into the profession when government is meeting some challenges that have limited its hiring power.

”Government with assistance from its partners can ensure the new nurses are taken on board and help assist people especially in rural areas” he added.

Since 2005, the Global Aids Interfaith Alliance—GAIA has helped to train over 400 nurses in the country.

Country Director for GAIA Joyce Jere said the organization is also engaging government to ensure more nurses are employed.

“we have an agreement with the nurses that when we pay the fees they are required to work in government for 4 years , currently talks are under way to insure that government the nurses get employed “she added.

Over 90 nurses graduated during the ceremony. Most of them had their training with funding from among other organization GAIA and the Christian Hospitals Association of Malawi—CHAM.