The Chinese capital Beijing plans to train 2,500 more nurses for
urban communities and rural villages in the next two years to have
every 2,000 residents cared by a community nurse by 2008, according
to municipal health sources.
The city issued on Sunday qualifications for another 1,743
community nurses who had passed both theory and skill exams after
training organized by local heath authorities, bringing the number
of its qualified community nurses to 5,500.
The community nurses will work in health service centers or
hospitals for urban communities or rural villages, said a spokesman
with the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau.
With a population of 15 million, Beijing is the first in the
country to conduct organized training for community nurses,
according to the bureau.
(Xinhua News Agency December 25, 2006)