The Principal at the Gushegu Midwifery Training School in the Northern Region on Wednesday prevented a pregnant student from continuing with her examination because she is pregnant.
Husband of the student who revealed the matter on Joy FM’s Morning Show Thursday said the Principal, Ms Rukaya Alhassan, refused to allow his wife to write the exams despite numerous pleas by him on the phone.
He said the situation has left his wife, Cecelia Awuni, traumatised after she was sacked from school on the grounds of being pregnant.
The husband said his wife wrote three of six papers but was prevented from going ahead with the fourth by the Principal.
The husband claimed the college over the years has been preventing pregnant students from taking exams or deferring them, a situation he describes as very worrying.
He has, therefore, made a passionate appeal to the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ms Otiko Djaba, to intervene to stop the Principal from violating the rights of her wife as well as that of several other students who may have suffered similar fate at the hands of the principal.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council which is the regulatory body in charge of the nursing and midwifery schools appears to endorse the decision to prevent her from sitting the exam.
The head of Public Relations at the Council, Nana Boateng Agyeman, said the decision was in the interest of the student.
Whilst admitting there is no law preventing a pregnant woman from writing exams, he said the training is such that a pregnant woman may lack the capacity to effectively participate in all the activities.
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