Dear Nursing Professionals of Pakistan!

In the respect of all who struggle for professional development of Nursing!

By recognizing the dubious Private Sector Nursing Institutes (not fulfilling the very basic requirements) the authorities, unfortunately, have been putting into risk the lives of patients in the hands of fake licensed nurses violating the basic right of providing safe nursing care. This deliberate crime against humanity is being done in connivance with PNC Mafia and those fake institutes in Sindh.

This Mafia-like network has become such strong that it has started dictating its terms even to Directorate of Nursing and Health Department Sindh by pressure, corruption and unnecessary court cases. The recent protests, press releases against president PNC, and court cases against the Health Department Sindh, PNC and Director/Controller SNEB is a proof of this menace.

Fake/Ghost/Nursing institutes have spread like franchise outlets where people can buy the Diploma/Degrees while sitting even abroad (The letters from D.Ns Sindh & Balochistan may please be referred). Exams had been turned in to an eyewash. Hundreds of ghost students without enrollment were let to appear in exams and in some cases other persons were managed to appear and pass the exams.

Later on, those who used to appear with pre-registration by PNC are/ were given enrollments/registration on the pretext of a largely misused term, "on the humanitarian grounds" or "in the interest of students". While PMDC fines such medical and dental colleges of crores of rupees for illegal and extra inductions of students (PMDC fined Asifa Medical & Dental College Six Crore Rupees for inducting students without their enrollment) but PNC, unfortunately, is encouraging this trend. 

This act is inhumane as it is creating licensed quacks who'll be a threat to the life of people for a long time to come.

Those managing the PNC, are vehemently requested to ensure the quality of nursing institutes by a reassessment of all fake/hoax outlets spread throughout Sindh Province who just open their offices in the evening as a business affair.

It is rightly expected to re-evaluate and denotify all such institutes which are a stigma on the face of our Profession. This is requested in the larger interest of our noble profession's image which is under threat from self-interest groups who have become a powerful mafia and want to capture and maneuver our Institutes and Profession for their personal interests.

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Regards
Reformers' Nursing Forum (RNF)