In Kenya, 24 per cent of nurses are male. [Courtesy]
As the world marked Nurses Day this week, gender disparity in the profession came into sharp focus with only 13 per cent of the world s nurses being men.
In Kenya, 24 per cent of nurses are male. In other words, for every ten nurses, just about two are male.
However, according to Seth Panyako, the secretary-general of Kenya National Union of Nurses (KNUN), the world doesn t need more men in the nursing profession but more professional nurses - both male and female.
“There is no crisis to warrant that we encourage more men to become nurses,” Panyako says.
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By Angeljean Chiaramida
Losing a brother is devastating, but three siblings are turning the tragedy into a celebration of serving others, as they know their brother would have wanted.
The McGrath sisters, Caitlin and Meghan, along with their brother Michael Dupont were desolate when their youngest brother, Robert, was taken from them in the fall of 2017 at only 29. There were tears and grief, of course, but soon a sense of purpose took hold, a desire to bring to fruition their brother’s long-held aspirations.
“He was 6-foot-1 and had red hair, so we called him Red,” said Caitlin McGrath-Levesque, the daughter of Robert and Judith McGrath of Connecticut. “We are a super close family; we do everything together. When Red died, we were searching for a way to merge his dreams and our need to honor him. ”