GENEVA: As COVID-19 captures global headlines, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that the world needs nearly six million nurses.
The report urged countries to identify gaps in their nursing workforce and invest in nursing education, jobs and leadership.ICN chief executive Howard Catton told a virtual briefing that infection rates, medication errors and mortality rates"are all higher where there are too few nurses".In fighting the pandemic, Mary Watkins, who co-chaired the report for Nursing Now, called for urgent investment in virus tests for healthcare workers.
Meanwhile he said there were reports of nine per cent of health workers being infected in Italy and"we're now hearing of rates of infections up to 14 per cent in Spain".
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