Some 8,000 public nurses and midwives, who completed training in November 2016, but are yet to be employed by government, have stormed Parliament, pleading with the lawmakers, to intervene on their behalf.
It follows failure of the Health Minister, Kweku Agyeman Manu, to heed a directive from President Nana Akufo-Addo last year to ensure that they were recruited.
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The leadership of the Ghana Nurse Midwife Trainees’ Association (GNMTA), who presented the petition to Parliament on Thursday February 15, 2018, described their situation as a “public health concern”.
According to the organizer, Isaiah Ametepe, they are unhappy about government’s adamancy to employing them though they have spent more than a year at home.
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The petition presented to the Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye, had the likes of Majority and Minority Leaders, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu and Haruna Iddrisu, Flagstaff House, among others copied.
The Association, had been assured by President Akufo-Addo of a quick posting and other preferential treatments during a courtesy on him at the Flagstaff House in September 2017, because of their peculiar circumstance. The Health Minister was present at the meeting.
However, the aggrieved nurses and midwives, who were the first batch of nurses and midwives, affected by the Mahama administration’s decision to scrap the nursing training allowance in 2016, are at home.
