NMC shuts down unaccredited nursing schools

The Nurses and Midwives Council (NMC) on Wednesday closed down two unaccredited schools offering certificates and diploma courses in nursing at the Budumburam refugee Camp in the Central Region.
When the Council members and 10 Police officers from the Kasoa District Police arrived at the Preparatory College of Health Sciences (PRECOHS) it was revealed that a [...]

Be a nurse in strange land

On a lazy October afternoon, the air crisp with autumn, Ler Bweh, a 25-year-old Karen refugee from Burma, lay on his stomach in his apartment, assembling a map-of-the-world puzzle. Slight and almost ethereal, with moist caramel skin and a diffident demeanor, Ler Bweh had been a geography teacher in the Mae La refugee camp on [...]