The vetting exercise by the National Council of Nurses and Midwives to ascertain whether nurses seeking employment in Rwanda posses genuine qualifications discovered that thirty had forged their academic transcripts.
The verification exercise has been going on since 2008. Information from Ministry of Health indicates that the Nursing Council has close to 11,000 files of nurses being verified and slightly over 3,000 are already complete
Twenty two nurses had claimed to have had their education in Uganda while eight lied that they studied in Tanzania. However, on verification by the council, it turned out that the said nurses were trying to dupe the ministry.
The council’s registrar, Julie Kimonyo, confirmed the development when contacted on Thursday this week. She said the process is still going on. Kimonyo revealed that the forgery was discovered through collaboration with their counterparts in Uganda and Tanzania.
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