Kumasi, July 10, GNA - Mrs Mercy Winifred Bonsu, Ashanti Regional Director of Nursing Services has appealed to the Government to rehabilitate the abandoned Fomena Nurses Training College in the Adansi North district, to help train more nurses.

She regretted that while most nurses had left the country under the 'brain drain' the College had been abandoned and overgrown with weeds. Mrs Bonsu made the appeal at the launching of two new pharmaceutical products, - Olfen 75-SR and Rectocap - for the treatment of bodily pains, manufactured by Mepha, a Swiss Pharmaceutical Company in Kumasi at the weekend.

She noted that many candidates with the requisite qualifications were willing to enter into the nursing profession but the few training colleges could not accommodate them. Mrs Bonsu said in 2005, about 6,000 students applied for admission into nursing institutions but only 200 gained admission into the few nursing-training colleges in the country as a result of limited facilities.

She appealed to Metropolitan, Municipal and District assemblies to sponsor the youth who expressed enthusiasm in nursing education to help augment the reduction in nursing staff at health institutions in the country.

Mr Noah Acolatse, Country Manager of Mepha, said the two products, Olfen 75-SR to be taken orally and Rectocap a suppository had Diclofenac Sodium as the main components. He said the drugs had proven efficacy in the treatment of rheumatic and non-rheumatic painful conditions. 10 July 06