In a significant effort towards enhancing nursing education and healthcare services in Nagaland, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between five key stakeholders on Tuesday to upgrade GNM Nursing School in Mokokchung into a B.Sc Nursing College, DIPR informed. The MoU was signed during the inauguration of the histopathology lab at Naga Hospital Authority, Kohima in the presence of Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog, Suman Kumar Bery.

The MoU was signed between Doctors For You, the Principal Director of the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland, the Joint Secretary of the Investment & Development Authority of Nagaland (IDAN), the Additional Secretary of the Department of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Nagaland, and the Nursing School at District Hospital, Mokokchung.

While the primary focus of the MoU is the upgradation of the Nursing School as a model institute for Nursing Education, it also aims to strengthening and upgrading existing GNM schools to accommodate up to 60 seats in the B.Sc Nursing College at Mokokchung; operating under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model; development and provision of education, training, and research facilities of the highest order for various courses of nursing education at all levels; conducting research with a focus on operational, applied, and other studies related to nursing sciences and manpower development and assisting the state Government in planning, establishing, managing; and assessing nursing education programs and related activities, including the introduction of new academic courses based on the needs of Nagaland state, within a self-sustainable financial model.