The students of the Tanoso Community Health and Nursing Training School (CHNTS) near Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region have threatened to embark on a demonstration against the school’s authorities for charging unapproved fees. They said that even though the Nurses and Midwifery Council (NMC) has its approved fees, final year students of the school … Read more
The Zuarungu and Bawku Nursing training colleges have jointly matriculated 453 general nurse and health assistant clinical trainees. The matriculation comprised of 295 nurses assistant clinical, 71 general nurses from the Zuarungu nursing training college, and 87 general nurses from the Bawku nursing training college. At the matriculation in Zuarungu, Principal of the Zuarungu NTC, … Read more
General indiscipline among some Nurses in public health facilities in the country has been identified as one of the major factors damaging the good image of the Ghana Health Service (GHS). Dr Abdul-Razak Dokurugu, the Deputy Director of the GHS in charge of Clinical Health of the Upper East Region made the observation during a … Read more
The Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses has expressed outrage at the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, over comments that its members’ postings were delayed because most of them had failed their exams. The nurses, comprising psychiatric nurses, general nurses, and midwives, on Monday April 24 picketed the ministry to pile further pressure on the … Read more
The Minister of Health Kwaku Agyemang Manu has described as irrelevant the government bonding of nurses. “We have several nursing training schools – some private ones have been training nurses for us…they pay their own school fees. So the value of bonding doesn’t seem to be real now,” he told Accra-based Citi FM Thursday. The … 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
A Labour Expert Y. B Amponsah has urged the Akufo Addo led-government not to hasten in revoking the bonding arrangement between trainee nurses and the government of Ghana. Deputy Minister of Health, Tina Mensah in the wake of protest by unposted midwives and psychiatric nurses earlier this week, revealed government’s intention. The nurses numbering over … Read more
Members of the Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses in Ghana have threatened to March to the Flagstaff House if they are not given clearance to work at the various health institutions in the country. According to them, they will carry out the threat if their three day protest at the Ministry of Health fails … Read more
There are measures to employ 11,000 health trainees who graduated between 2012 and 2016, and 181 doctors who also completed their housemanship seven months ago. Government has also allocated GH¢ 252 million Ghana cedis for the restoration of nurses and teacher trainees’ allowances. These measures are aimed at improving the health delivery system in Ghana, … Read more
The National Reconstructive Plastic Surgery and Burns Centre (NRPSBC) has taken a bold step to save the country thousands of cedis that go into the training of Plastic Surgery and Burns nurses abroad. Forty of such nurses from selected hospitals across the country graduated with Postgraduate Diploma certificate in Plastic Surgery and Burns Nursing in … Read more
The trainee nurses recruitment according to the Minister of Health, includes only those who where granted financial clearance in December, 2016. The Ghana Health Service (GHS), has resumed the recruitment of trainee nurses and other health professionals across the country, after the exercise was suspended in February, 2016. The information was disclosed in a letter from … Read more
Queen Elizabeth II of England has awarded a Ghanaian-born nurse in the UK, Cecilia Anim, with a CBE, (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire). The New Year Honours are awarded as part of UK’s New Year celebrations at the start of January 2017. This year’s honors has been touted as the most … Read more
A Ghanaian-born nurse in the UK, Cecilia Anim, has been awarded a CBE, (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) by the Queen of England as part of her 2017 New Year Honours list. 2017’s honours were touted as most diverse ever in the almost 100-year history of the Order of the … Read more
Over 8,000 nurses will soon be employed by the government following a financial clearance by the Ministry of Finance A letter released by the Ministry of Finance has indicated that a total of 8,634 health personnel has been cleared by the Ministry for subsequent employment by the government. According to the letter signed by the … Read more
Government has given financial clearance for the employment of 8,634 nurses and midwives as well as other allied personnel for the various health facilities across the country. The recruitment exercise takes effect from November 1, 2016 through to March 1, 2017, a clearance letter dated November 11 and signed by the Minister of Finance, Seth … Read more
Commander JSK Dzamefe, the Chairperson of the Board of Governors of the 37 Nursing and Midwifery Training College (NMTC), has charged parents to take interest in their children’s education. He said parents needed not to only pay their children’s school fees but rather take active part in their educational cycle. “As parents, you are not … Read more
Patients who have been denied treatment at the out-patients department (OPD) of public hospitals are appealing to the health professionals to return to work. The patients said owing to the strike, the doctors and nurses who are supposed to take their vitals and process their folders at the OPDs have failed to do so. “We … Read more
Restoring fully, the allowances of nursing trainees will threaten the future of Ghana’s economy, Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has said. Speaking at the Nalerigu Nursing and Midwifery College in the Northern region, the Vice President asked the students to disregard promises by the opposition to restore the allowances, since it is not in the … Read more
Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has strongly defended government’s decision to withdraw teachers and nurses’ trainee allowances. Speaking at the Nalerigu Nursing and Midwifery College and the Gambaga College of Education at Nalerigu in the Northern Region, where he jointly inaugurated members of the Tertiary Education Institution Network of the NDC, the Vice President said the … Read more
The recent announcement of the restoration of allowances for nurse trainees was in order because government erred in the earlier decision to scrap it, the Greater Accra Regional Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Anthony Nukpenu, has said. “We might have erred in that direction because the steps being taken were not ripe and … Read more