UNDERSTAFFING MAKES BHUTANESE NURSES’ DAILY TOIL A REAL GRIND
September 1st, 2008
BY KENCHO WANGDI
LIKE other nurses in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, religion played a part in convincing Dechen Om that she should become a nurse.
A Buddhist, like most of her co-patriots, she believed that by becoming a nurse she would get the chance to serve ill people and earn good karma so in the next life she would be born into a good family. According to Buddhism, the quality of your current life is determined by behaviour in you previous life.
However, Dechen told the Nursing Standard, that her faith is actually severely challenged by her job ...
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