The Nurses and Midwifery Council (NMC) has revealed that health institutions in the country are churning out products more than required for consumption by the state.
This is as a result of over admissions by various public health training institutions which have resulted in the backlog of nurses who have graduated and yet cannot be engaged by public health facilities in the country.
Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the NMC, Nana Boateng Agyeman on Accra-based Okay Fm, said it has been observed over the period that these health training institutions double their intake also making the quality of training poor.
According to him, facilities meant for a specific number are overstretched in such instances indicating that a new quota system adopted by the Ministry Health will ensure that health training institutions take a number of entrants they can comfortably train who may be assured of jobs on completion.
He continued that a high increase in enrolment rates would activate a correspondingly high increase in the payment of trainee allowances which government may not be ready to shoulder.
In other words, the quota system where public nursing trainee institutions admit limited numbers despite the capacity of the facilities to admit more is the order of the day.
Responding to the release of quotas to the various Health Training Institutions in the country he said “we want the heads of those institutions to abide by the number so that we do not have people picketing and claiming they do not have jobs”




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  1. Well that is a very important thing to consider at the beginning of each academic year. The ministry responsible should give the quota of nurses that would be needed by the end of their training. This is what is done here in Germany. They produce what they can employ. This cuts down government expenditure, produces quality trainees and prevents the problem of unemployment after completing the course.

  2. We have many clinics and chip compounds around the country without nurses. Why should prevent people from being train as nurse. It will be better we train more and even export them to other countries. Why should the government spend money on a few and majority remain uneducated just because of students’ allowance.

  3. It is possible to export the current “unemployed” Nurses who are picketing to other neighbouring countries where their services will be needed? The Government can liaise with other countries to make use of these ‘human capital’ to generate export revenue.
    Private Clinics and Hospitals in the country should also be made to use the services of trained Nurses by paying a token to the Government for engaging their services.
    A holistic approach should be found to solve this issue, now.
    Is the quota system the best option?

  4. Is the NMC really telling us the truth about the number of nurses we currently require as a nation or they are saying what suits their paymasters? Are the institutions really producing more than we need or we currently have a nurse to patient deficit of 38000 as reported yesterday in the daily graphic banner story on the quota? They should stop all this politics and be truthful to Ghanaians. There’s nothing wrong with taking your word back when you realize you can’t go by it anymore. The government made a promise at a time they never they could win the elections . Now they’re faced with the reality, the day of reckoning!

  5. This policy is very nice one.John mahama is a useless president Ghana has ever had.How can you train more knowing very well you can’t employ them because you were sending protocols for money.Even mahama was taken common phone as bribe.I thank God we now have one of the wise men as president.God bless Nana Addo.

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