PESHAWAR, Experts have expressed concern over shortage of nurses and have called for setting up more colleges to produce desired number of nurses to improve patients’ care in hospitals.
“There is one nurse for 31,579 patients in Pakistan against WHO’s recommendation of one nurse for 10 patients,” said Prof Najib ul Haq, principal of Peshawar Medical College (PMC). Pakistan has one doctor for a population of 1,516, according to the Federal Bureau of Statistics, he said.
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