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Princess Muna celebrates birthday today
AMMAN (Petra) — HRH Princess Muna celebrates her birthday today. With a strong personal interest in issues of health and social welfare, Princess Muna has spent a good part of her life contributing to community welfare programmes and benefit campaigns for the needy, orphaned and the disabled.
Today she stands at the helm of the nursing and midwifery sector in Jordan.
Born Toni Gardiner in the UK, Princess Muna first settled in Jordan in 1960 with her father army Lt. Col. Walter Percy Gardiner and his wife Doris.
She was married to His Majesty the late King Hussein in 1961. The couple had four children: His Majesty King Abdullah and Their Royal Highnesses Prince Faisal, Princess Zein and Princess Aisha.
The Princess has devoted much of her energies in establishing a solid foundation for healthcare in the Kingdom, steering national endeavours to upgrade nursing and midwifery standards.
That role began with the establishment of the Princess Muna College of Nursing in 1962.
Having worked to affiliate the Princess Muna College of Nursing with the University of Muta in 1988, the Princess offered a model for other universities to follow.
Today, eight nursing colleges exist in universities around the country, with 45 people now holding PhDs in the field of nursing.
Princess Muna has repeatedly underlined the need to begin research in nursing and training to upgrade medical services.
She attributed the shortage of nurses to a lack of training programmes designed according to international criteria.
The Princess is also honorary adviser to the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Nursing Development and also patron of WHO Nursing and Midwifery in the Middle East and Mediterranean, which has 22 member countries.
The Princess is the president of the Nursing Council, which is entrusted with creating and implementing national health strategies relating to nursing, while upgrading and regulating the profession.
Monday, April 25, 2005
link:
http://www.jordantimes.com/mon/homenews/homenews3.htm
-Eliza
PS: I wasn't able to check the papers yesterday, if somebody found something on P Iman's b-day please post in the P Iman and P Raiyah thread....thanx