The President of the Directing Board of the Nursing School of Coimbra (ESEnfC), Professora Maria da Conceição Bento, has given thanks to the personages of acknowledged merit for their contribution. These personages have taken office on Thursday as external members of the Assembly for the revision of the Statutes of the institution.
Although being «busy people, who contribute to the development of society», they embraced «one more challenge, helping to build our School», referred Professora Conceição Bento at the end of the ceremony.
The following personages have taken Office:
Professor Fernando de Jesus Regateiro (President of the Management Board of the Hospitals of the University of Coimbra), Engenheiro João Vasco da Fonseca Jorge Ribeiro (responsible for the management of the National Strategic Reference Framework - QREN - in the central area of Portugal), Doutora Maria Leonor Couceiro Pizarro Beleza (former Minister of Health and current President Of the Champalimaud Foundation) and Enfermeira Mariana Dulce Diniz de Sousa (first President of the Portuguese Nursing Council).
The fifth member of this group of personages who will help the ESEnfC draw up the new orienting document of the functioning of the institution, Doutor António Arnaut (lawyer, recognised as the father of the Portuguese Health Service), will take office within days since he could not attend the ceremony for personal reasons.
See Diário As Beiras (29/03/08)
See Diário de Coimbra (29/03/08)