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'Nurses are the heartbeat of healthcare': Award-winning nurse Naomi Ohene Oti

'Nurses are the heartbeat of healthcare': Award-winning nurse Naomi Ohene Oti

France 2403-06-2025
A Ghanaian nurse who has won an international award for her work has spoken to FRANCE 24 about the need to invest in nursing. Naomi Ohene Oti is an Oncology Nurse Specialist and Head of Nursing at Ghana's National Radiotherapy Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Centre. She has just been named the winner of the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award, with the prize aiming to recognise and celebrate the extraordinary contribution of nurses across the world. "Nurses are the heartbeat of healthcare, so when they (governments) get it right (in terms of investing in nursing), the system also will get it right," she told us in Perspective.
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