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"A year into an ambitious project to churn out 3,000 professional nurses to overcome a shortage in three southern provinces, Health Ministry officials say the goal may have overshot its objective. Professor Tada Yipintsoi, chairman of the Public Health Ministry's working group to solve health problems in the South, said he feared the programme by the ministry would create an oversupply of nurses.

"We don't know where they can all find work after graduation as we don't need that many nurses," Dr Tada said. . . "I don't understand why he [the former Public Health minister Dr Mongkol na Songkhla] gave us 3,000 nurses, as we only asked for 300," he said. He had opposed the project from the start and often voiced his opinion to the former minister that the project was not well planned. . .

Currently there are 2,871 nurses working in Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and five districts of Songkhla, where violence had erupted. The present demand for nurses in these areas was estimated to be 2,923.

Dr Supat Hasuwannakit, director of Jana Hospital, Songkhla, said the ratio of nurses per population in this area was actually much higher than the Northeast. . .Supat agreed with Tada that the project was not well planned or organised. He feared the project may incur more problems than solutions."

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