Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2005, published 95th ILC session (2006)

Nursing Personnel Convention, 1977 (No. 149) - Ecuador (Ratification: 1978)

The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s last report. The Committee would be grateful if the Government would continue to provide, in accordance with Part V of the report form, all available information concerning the application of the Convention in practice, including, for instance, statistics on the evolution of the nursing workforce both in urban and rural areas, the number of students enrolled in nursing schools as well as the number of nurses leaving the profession every year, copies of official reports or studies examining the employment and working conditions of nursing personnel, etc.

The Committee would be particularly interested in receiving up to date information on the work of the newly created unit for the coordination of national policies regarding nursing personnel and would also wish to have the Government’s views on whether global phenomena such as the shortage of qualified nurses, nursing migration, the intensification of workload of health workers in general and the privatization or redesigning of the work organization of health-care institutions affect the quality of nursing services at the national level.