Monrovia, May 18 -- The Executive Secretary and Registrar of the Liberian Board for Nursing and Midwifery (LBNM), Cecelia Flomo, has strongly condemned what she described as the "long-standing stereotypes" surrounding nurses in Liberia. She emphasized that nurses should no longer be seen as auxiliary staff but as nation-builders, economic contributors, and frontline defenders of public health.

Delivering the keynote address at this year's International Nurses Day celebration, held under the global theme "Our Nurses. Our Future: The Economic Power of Care," Flomo warned that chronic underinvestment in the nursing profession-ranging from inadequate infrastructure and poor working conditions to stagnant career growth and insufficient pay-is...