World Health Day Messages

World Health Day Messages.

In this International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, World Health Day will highlight the current status of nursing and around the world. WHO and its partners will make a series of recommendations to strengthen of the nursing and midwifery workforce.

1. Globally, 70% of the health and social workforce are women. Nurses and midwives represent a large portion of this. # RightByHer #WorldHealthDay #SupportNurses&Midwives

2. Achieving health for all depends on the numbers of well-trained and educated, regulated and adequately supported nurses and midwives. # RightByHer #WorldHealthDay #SupportNurses&Midwives

3. Governments should Invest more in health workers, who are critical for maternal and new-born health as well as for family planning, could avert over 80% of all the maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths that occur today. #RightByHer #WorldHealthDay #SupportNurses&Midwives

4. COVID-19 highlights how important it is for all nurses to have access to the most up-to-date knowledge and guidance required to respond to such outbreaks. #RightByHer #WorldHealthDay #SupportNurses&Midwives

5. Nurses and midwives play a vital role in providing health services they devote their lives to caring for mothers and children; giving lifesaving immunizations and health advice; looking after older people and generally meeting everyday essential health needs. They are often, the first and only point of care in their communities. #RightByHer #WorldHealthDay #SupportNurses&Midwives

6. Governments should invest in nurses and midwives to improve health and promote gender equality. #RightByHer #WorldHealthDay #SupportNurses&Midwives

7. Universal Health Coverage cannot be achieved without a motivated, supported and well distributed nursing workforce. #RightByHer #WorldHealthDay #SupportNurses&Midwives

8. Enabling nurses to work to their full potential improves the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for all. #RightByHer #WorldHealthDay #SupportNurses&Midwives

9. It is time to recognize the critical contribution of the nurses in the provision of family planning and SRHR services. #RightByHer #WorldHealthDay #SupportNurses&Midwives

10. According to SOAW report nurses and midwives should be trained on SRH since lack of knowledge and skills about adolescent SRH among health workers hinders adolescents’ access to SRH services. #RightByHer #WorldHealthDay #SupportNurses&Midwives