Exit Of BMSH Ex-matron, A Big Lose –Chief Agama

The exit of the former matron of Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital (BMSH) and founding president of Port Harcourt Horticultural Society, Mrs Grace Alagoma has been described as a big loss to nursing profession.

Chief Beatrice Agama, one of the foremost nursing sisters in Nigeria stated this Tuesday in Port Harcourt in an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt.

Chief Agama said the late Mrs Alagoma was a fine, disciplined and orderly professional nurse who earned the respect of many that came her way.

Chief Agama, said the deceased shared so much in common with her and their relationship blossomed to friendship.

We shared many things in common. We were lovers of flowers. We bounded ourselves together under the umbrella of Port Harcourt Horticultural society and she tendered her flowers as if she was tendering her patients. Everything in her showed orderliness,” she said.

Mrs Agama who expressed delight with the greening exercise in Port Harcourt by Governor Rotimi Chibuike led administration regretted that the founding president of Port Harcourt Horticultural Society died at this period when the state needed her initiative and contributions most.

She enjoined nurses in the country to remember that the profession is a vocation requiring interest in the discharge of their duties.

“Nurses in our days were vocation driven, mainly by interest but even though nurses today are better paid than in our days, I think that the nurses need better official accommodation and good job environment to perform well,” he said.

Mrs Alagoma who was also founding president of Inner Wheel Club died recently after a protracted illness at the age of 80 years. She did nursing in the United Kingdom and was at the famed University College Hospital Ibadan before leaving for Ethiopia to join her husband who was with the United Nations.

Later, she was at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH) and BMSH, Port Harcourt where she was a matron before her voluntary retirement in the eighties.