PREMIER ADDRESSES INTERNATIONAL NURSING CONFERENCE

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag made the opening remarks at the 3rd international Nursing Conference which kicked off Thursday in Ulaanbaatar. The conference, co-organized by the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Health in frames of the 85th anniversary of the Nursing School at the Mongolian National University of Medical Science, has gathered over 20 foreign scholars and 800 nurses and delegates of all hospitals. “The public'a thought that a nurse is an assistant for a doctor only does not exist any more, the science of nursing has already has become an independent branch,” the Premier noted. The School of Nursing has some 32 thousand professionals, "and its programme must be improved so as to prepare internationally-accepted skilled nurses", he suggested. During the two-day conference, sub-meetings will run with topics on improving interconnection between medical professions, augmenting a quality of nursing aid and services, upgrading a nursing education, and on expanding training system simulators.