A female representative aspirant of Montserrado County Electoral District 16, on the ticket of New Liberia Party (NLP), Patricia S. Jeator, has cautioned the 50th Circle Graduation Convocation of the New Hope School of Health Science and Professional Studies to “uphold the traits of professional nursing.”
She entreated the at least 20 Nurse Assistants (NAs) to strive to be professional and compassionate in the discharge of their medical duties in their various places of work in the country.
Jeator voiced that not only should the graduates of NEHSOHS ought to remain professional and compassionate in attending to the health needs of patients at hospitals and health posts, she also wants the graduates to see the need to always, in keeping with the norms of the medical field, save lives of patients, irrespective of the circumstances.
Representative Aspirant Jeator, in her keynote address, told the graduates to do their utmost best as they go out there to join their fellow nurse assistants in the health sector, adding,” They made us, the administration, and their parents proud as goodwill health ambassadors of the country by the walking out of the walls of New Hope School of Health Science, Inc. with pride, following an intensive and hard study.”
She stressed the need for the public, philanthropists and people of goodwill, including educationalists here, to begin to lend support to females to better their lives, especially young promising ladies in such areas, because, as she puts it, “The medical arena is a very sensitive profession.”
The aspirant then expressed delight over the milestone achievements of the over 20 nurse assistants of the 50th Circle of the NEHSOHS.
She voiced that most people their age (young people) have shunned education or don’t have the means to advance themselves by getting educated to give back to Liberia; with a significant amount of them falling prey to drug addiction, living in the ghettos and deserted by their families, friends, and society.
On the political scene, Madam Patricia S. Jeator, who was recently certificated by the National Elections Commission (NEC) to contest at the October 10 presidential and legislative elections, vowed to award some medical scholarships to some studious students of the NEHSOHS, to study at some medical institutions for further advancement in said field in the United States upon her victory, in her quest to replace incumbent CDC representative, Dixon W. Seboe of District #16.
She recalled that while in the US for studies, she encountered Indian and Ghanaian women who are working at hospitals professionally, taking care of patients, while other women from different nationalities are undergoing medical studies so that upon graduation, they would return to their native countries to use their medical knowledge in upgrading their respective health sectors, pointing out that medical students of NEHSOHS will not be an exception.
Having been born and bred on Karpeh Street in the Borough of New Kru Town, She explained, “If elected as Representative of Montserrado District #16, I want to help redeem my people, transform the district from ghettos to a wholesome society and ensure that it is safe and free of crimes.”
According to her, she’s the face of the Borough of New Kru Town, and called on the women and the youth to rally their support to boost her representative bid for the district seat in the impending October polls, adding that, if elected, she would be the people’s lawmaker, not a demi-god.
Earlier on, the President of the New Hope School of Health Science and Professional Studies, Mrs. Thelma Togba Ajalie, in a special statement, disclosed a plan by the school which was established in 2002 – currently erecting a modern campus in Brewerville Township, which is said to be at roof level, for elevation to an associate degree status, through a vote by the Board of Directors and the Incorporators, in order to accommodate about 1,500 students, due to a huge number of student enrollment at the institution. She put the estimate cost of the project at USD12,500.
She explained that the aims and objectives of the NEHSOHS by its proprietor, a one-time Governor of the Borough of New Kru Town, Hon. Sobor S. Dogba, was to recruit and train young people, especially females, in the field of nursing, as a means of discouraging them from engaging into societal vices like prostitution and other negative or criminal activities, as well as preparing them to withstand future challenges in and out of the nation.
Since then, Mrs. Ajalie disclosed, the school has trained and graduated some 4000 nurse assistants and ex-combatants who are now employed with hospitals and health posts and are making their contribution to Liberia’s poor health sector.
In her valedictory address, Ms. Felecia F. Davies (Dux in Theory), extended thanks and appreciation to the administration of the NEHSOHS for the quality health education imparted in them (the graduates), especially for the support provided by their parents, guardians, and sponsors, thus promising, on behalf of the graduates, to use the knowledge acquired to help improve the health delivery system.
For his part, the Training Director of NEHSOHS, Mr. Ibnyasin Duoko, said the graduation and convocation is the 50th Circle of the training program of the school, stating that about 24 students, four females and twenty males, were sent for affiliation or job training at hospitals and clinics, but due to financial squeeze, four pupils did not continue the training program for graduation.
On courses being offered by NEHSOHS, Douko named Fundamental Nursing (theory & practical), Common Disease for tropical and communicable disease, and medical emergency courses, among other, as courses being taught by the qualified teaching staff of the school.
