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National Institute of Advanced Nursing Education and Research in Bangladesh has so far produced 124 highly skilled nursing leaders since its inception in 2016, said the South Korean embassy in Dhaka on Tuesday.
The institute (NIANER), established with the support of the Korean government, is playing a crucial role in Bangladesh’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic by educating and training qualified nurse leaders, it said.
It currently has 114 students under training. Faculty members of the institute were regularly invited
to South Korea for nursing leadership training, the embassy said, adding that 32 of those faculty members so far received faculty training there and three of them received PhD degrees.
Lee Jang-keun, South Korean ambassador to Bangladesh, visited the NIANER on Monday and expressed appreciation to the nurses and front-line health workers for their sacrifices and devotion to catering Covid-19 patients risking their own health.
The NIANER, first proposed to Korea during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to Seoul in 2010, was formally inaugurated in May 2018. The project was executed by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA),
development agency under the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, between 2012-2019 with a total project cost of US$13.75 million.
