About 500 jobless health professionals have staged a protest at the Ministry of Health to demand immediate employment. According to them, the government has failed to employ them after a year of completing their academic programs. The Allied Health Professionals, comprising graduates of the College of Health in Kintampo and the School of Dispensing Optics … Read more
A youth-oriented pressure group, Dynamic Youth Movement of Ghana, has called on the government to develop a clear-cut solution to resolve the issue of the over 400 unemployed nurses and midwives in the country. The nurses, who constitute the Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses in Ghana, have been pressuring government to give them financial … Read more
Deputy Minister of Health Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu who was to represent the sector minister at the Public Accounts Committee sat through the sitting without uttering a word today. He was unable to speak for his boss because some members of the committee mainly from the minority side prevented him from taking an oath before the … Read more
The Deputy Health Minister, Tina Mensah, has called on unemployed bonded registered nurses, to remain calm as the Ministry is working with appropriate bodies to recruit them in due course. The Minister was yesterday addressing a group calling itself the Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Registered Nurses and Midwives, who picketed at the premises of the … Read more
The Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses, has issued a ten-day ultimatum to the Ministry of Health to effect their financial clearance for onward posting. The group, which has over the last two days been picketing at the premises of the Ministry, has subsequently suspended its protest. Addressing a press briefing today [Wednesday], the leader … Read more
The Coalition of Unemployed Diploma Nurses on Tuesday evening passed the night at the premises of the Health Ministry amidst rain and cold weather as they continued picketing in demand of financial clearance and posting. There were close to 40 nurses who pitched camp outside the Health Ministry, as Tuesday marked the second day of … Read more
According to the nurses, they will carry out their threat if their concerns are not addressed The Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses will be marching to the Flagstaff House if they are not given clearance to work in the various health institutions nationwide. The members gave the hint when they granted interview to Nyankonton … Read more
The Health Minister, Mr. Kwaku Agyemang-Manu has debunked claims by demonstrating nurses camping outside the premises of the Health Ministry suggesting they have been bonded with government and as such needed to be offered jobs by the ministry. Mr. Agyemang-Manu, in an interview on Top FM Morning show “Ghana te sen” said, the position taken … Read more
Former deputy Minister for Employment Baba Jamal has dared the New Patriotic party (NPP) to publicly publish the names and place of postings of the 11,000 nurses who were said to have been given clearance by the Ministry of Health, disclosed earlier by the Vice President, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia. The Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma … Read more
The Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses spent Monday night at the Ministry of Health and have promised to spend two more nights before moving to the Flagstaff House on Wednesday to picket and demand for their appointment letters. Members of the coalition from across the country who are currently in Accra, claimed they have … Read more
Police have urged over 150 unemployed diploma nurses who picketed the Ministry of Health (MoH) demanding their immediate posting to leave the premises of the Ministry and avoid sleeping there as they have threatened to do, given they refused to notify the service of their intent to picket the place. The group on Monday 24 … Read more
The government has announced that it will pay all amounts owed providers under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) by the end of April, 2017. Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, who revealed this at the ministry’s annual summit in Kumasi on Wednesday, April 19, said government would not wait until the claims accumulate before providers are … Read more
As the Akufo-Addo administration moves beyond the 100-day milestone, the Health Ministry has indicated that its focus over the next four years will be ensuring and improving accountability within the sector. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, noted that a test of this new resolve to ensure accountability will be … Read more
As the Akufo-Addo administration moves beyond the 100-day milestone, the Health Ministry has indicated that its focus over the next four years will be ensuring and improving accountability within the sector. Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, the Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, noted that a test of this new resolve to ensure accountability will be … Read more
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has declared a state of emergency after two deadly bombings Sunday, the first at a church north of Cairo, the second hours later outside a church in Alexandria, that were claimed by the Islamic State group. “Islamic State squads carried out the attacks on two churches in Tanta and Alexandria,” … Read more
The death toll has risen to at least 11 and 40 injured after a suicide bomber struck The death toll has risen to at least 11 and 40 injured after a suicide bomber struck in front of a church in Alexandria, Egypt on Sunday, the Health Ministry said. The blast occurred hours after a bombing … Read more
Speculations have been ongoing as to the cause of the death of four students of the Kumasi Academy which many deemed ‘mysterious’ due to the nature of the deaths. Among the very many guessed causes of the deaths is that of food poisoning which received wide acceptance since the students allegedly suffered similar sicknesses before … Read more
Application forms for admission into nursing training colleges have gone on sale at a reduced price of GHC100 from the previous GHC160. A statement signed by the Director of Human Resource in charge of Health Development at Ministry of Health, Lawoetey Tettey, to all principals of the various institutions said applications into Health Training Institutions … Read more
Government has given the green light to all health training institutions across the country to begin admission of persons wishing to pursue nursing and its related courses. A statement issued by the Ministry of Health to all principals of the various institutions read in part: “…applications into Health Training Institutions commences from April 3, to … Read more
The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has warned that government’s attitude towards the posting of medical doctors could usher in another era of ‘brain drain’ in the country. The Association has been asking government to immediately employ and post over 200 hundred jobless medical doctors in the country. These unemployed doctors have been home for about … Read more