“Nursing is a very important profession, as well as vocational, and therefore we all have to work together and in a coordinated way, to continue taking steps, to continue making visible the activity and the work they do”.
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has highlighted the importance of the work of nursing professionals and has valued that our territory has been chosen for one of the stops of the health trailer the “Nursing Route”, which is traveling throughout Spain for a year to promote healthy habits among people of all ages and sensitize the population about the essential work of nurses at all stages of life.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city has thanked the Collegiate Organization of Nursing and the College of Nursing of Melilla, that our city hosts this great health trailer, and has stressed the importance of “recognizing, thanking and making visible what is the activity that our nurses do”.
Moh has recalled that the Nursing is one of the most demanded careers in our city and one of the territories where a very important work is done by these professionals.
“We have great professionals serving here in our city, and therefore it seems to me that an activity of this nature also serves to value and recognize the work done by our nurses,” he stressed, while again showing the collaboration of the Government of the Nation and the Government Delegation “to be able to continue working to make visible such an important activity and such an important and vocational profession as nursing”.
High level of training
The Territorial Director of Ingesa, Omar Haouari, for his part, has pointed out that helping, educating in health and enhancing self-care are actions that are contemplated in the integral attention to the health and well-being of the citizens that the profession of Nurse provides.
“In the Health Area of Melilla there are more than half a thousand nursing professionals who take care of the needs of the population from pregnancy to old age”, he has valued, therefore, he has thanked this activity as an informative action “to raise awareness about the essential work carried out by nurses”.
In his speech, he said that the commitment of Ingesa “is to continue taking steps in the empowerment of nurses such as those carried out to accredit them for the indication, use and authorization of the dispensing of medicines and health products for human use, related to their professional practice”.
Haouari recalled that, today, the role of Nursing is very different from its beginnings, “since it is currently composed of professionals of high level of training who work in many fields of action, both in hospitals, in Urgencies, Intensive Care Unit, operating theatres, laboratories… and in Primary Care, close to patients contributing to their therapeutic education so that they, when they are at home, know how to take care of themselves”.
Workshops, talks and games
The President of the Official College of Nursing of the city, Pedro Miralles, has emphasized the relevance of this route. “We are facing the largest nursing visibility project in the history of our country”, he has been pleased and has advanced that during the three days that the trailer will be parked in the Plaza of Cultures, “the nurses of Melilla will be absolute protagonists of care, promoting healthy habits among citizens of all ages and offering talks, interactive workshops, diagnostic tests and games, both for children and adults”.
As he explained, the main mission of this project is to make society aware of the essential work of nurses, “applauded on many occasions, but perhaps unknown to many, as well as full of topics or archaic conceptions.”
For this reason, he has stressed the importance of making known the daily role they play in the health system “with a vocation of service and a love for the profession that is inspiring, and that is the basis on which our health system is based”.