An-Najah News - The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the world needs about 6 million additional people, who work in nursery, in order to provide the necessary treatment to the infected people.

Public sector employees around the world are under great pressure from the corona pandemic, which has affected more than one million and 362 thousand people and killed more than 76 thousand people.

In the report shared by the international campaign “Nursing Now” and the International Council of Nurses, the organization stressed the primary role of professional nurses, who represent more than half of the medical staff.

“Nurses are the main pillar of health systems,” WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Gebresos, said in a statement.

“Today, many nurses find themselves at the forefront of addressing the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said.

The report showed that there are about 28 million professional nurses in the world, according to France-Press.

He said during the years 2014 and 2018, their number increased by 4.7 million, but “there is still a shortage of 5.9 million.” The shortage is concentrated in the poorest countries of Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and South America.

The three organizations called on countries to define their urgent needs in this area, and to make investment in training, work and rehabilitation a priority.

The director of the International Council of Nurses, Howard Caton, said that the number of infections, medical errors and deaths “is higher when the number of nurses is small.”