Let’s improve services rendered to patients: Prof Sekharjit

IMPHAL, May 15: Speaking at the observation of International Nurses week organized by RIMS Nurses Association, nursing staff of RIMS and College of Nursing, RIMS at the Jubilee Hall today, Prof S Sekharjit Singh, Director Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS)exhorted upon the medical fraternity saying, "Let us improve the service rendered to patients for a healthy society. We must be punctual and sincere in attending duties, and very particular in looking how the patient looks at us and the way we respond."

The role of nursing needs to be reminded to keep the society healthy and to prevent diseases in the hospitals and other establishments, he said. During imparting health education, providing service to ailing persons a nurse must follow the footsteps of Florence Nightingale by being devoted to areas related to healthcare, he suggested. He also said the nursing course is a very technical education and in fact its examination is difficult to pass. The course is not as easy as many people think it to be.

Speaking at the occasion, H Jamuna Devi, Principal College of Nursing, RIMS said the lady with the lamp shall always stand as a symbol of heroic womanhood.

She added, "We must take proper coordination between the nursing and education section, and work together wherever applicable to fulfill the millennium goal which says to improve the maternal health. Until and unless the health of the women is not improved, the society does not improve, she added.

Other dignitaries present at the occasion were Prof Ch Arunkumar Singh, Medical Superintendent (i/c) RIMS; TY Babu, Prof of Surgery RIMS and Dean School of Medical Sciences, Manipur University; Prof N Damayanti Devi, HOD Anatomy RIMS; and J Rallienzo Hmar, Dy Nursing Superintendent RIMS.