Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2014, published 104th ILC session (2015)

Nursing Personnel Convention, 1977 (No. 149) - Belarus (Ratification: 1979)

Article 2(1) and (3) of the Convention. National policy on nursing services and nursing personnel. The Committee notes the Government’s report in reply to its previous comment. The Government mentions a number of programmes through which nursing services are being developed in the country for the period 2011–15. The Committee requests the Government to further elaborate on the aspects of these programmes related to nursing services and nursing personnel, particularly steps taken for their implementation and results. The Committee also requests the Government to indicate whether and how employers’ and workers’ representative organizations have been consulted in the formulation of these programmes, as required by Article 2(3) of the Convention.

Article 5(1). Participation of nursing personnel in the planning of services. The Committee asks the Government once again to transmit a copy of the instruments establishing the composition and rules of procedure of the National Council on Nursing Services as well as additional information on the activities of the National Council and the role and participation of the Nurses’ Association in its work.