The product, dubbed Admissions Checker, is a web application that offers some sense of certainty to gain admission into Ghanaian universities.

A few hours away from being launched at the Presbyterian Boys Senior High School at Legon, the app will solve the current uncertainty and huge cost to students and parents.

The current situation and how Admissions Checker provides a solution

At present, SHS graduates seeking university admission must purchase multiple application forms, each costing about GHS200, in hopes of being accepted by at least one university.

Admissions Checker resolves this issue by offering a realistic approach to selecting universities and courses, thereby bringing clarity to the process.

How Admissions Checker works

The web application allows senior high school students to input their WASSCE or NovDec results into a portal containing tertiary admissions requirements.

The system uses algorithms to analyze the entered data and determine the likelihood of gaining admission to various universities and courses.

Based on the results provided by Admissions Checker, students can strategically target their applications to institutions and courses where they have a higher probability of acceptance.

This reduces uncertainty and eliminates the need for multiple costly applications.

What to expect at the launch

At the launch event, the developers of Admissions Checker will explain how the public can access and use the app, providing a step-by-step guide.

Stay tuned to adomonline.com for detailed coverage and updates on this innovative solution.

In a statement, the UPNMG revealed that currently there are over 22, 000 trained but unemployed Nurses and Midwives, making the YEA’s plans of recruiting SHS graduates worrying.

“These unemployed Nurses and Midwives are made up of 2019 referral batch, 2020 batch who have finished their rotation and 2019 NAC/NAP batch. In addition, those who were employed early this year have still not been paid after several months of service to the country,” a portion of the statement read.

The UPNMG further lamented the three months training program planned by the YEA for these graduates is woefully inadequate since one requires at least two to four years to be trained and certified as a Nurse or Midwife.

“Nursing and Midwifery is a profession that requires at least two to four years of intense training in both academic and practical skills.

“It is, therefore, unacceptable to infiltrate the system with three months or less trained individuals to nurse patients at a level as important as the CHPS which has been considered as one of the pragmatic strategies for achieving universal health coverage of a basic package of essential primary health services with international recognition,” the statement explained.

Against this backdrop, UPNMG has warned of dire consequences if the YEA goes ahead to implement the policy, citing a report by the National Health Service (NHS).

“The National Health Service (NHS) reported that the use of unskilled nurses to support workers in the UK led to an increase in mortality rate, inadequate patient care and negative nurse outcomes.

“Additionally, Dr Linda Aiken of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, said “reducing nursing skill mix by adding unskilled nursing personnel may contribute to preventable deaths, erode quality and safety of hospital care and contribute to hospital nurse shortages,” the Union stressed.

The UPNMG referred to the move by the government to employ SHS graduates to assist nurses in CHPS as a distortion of the standard of the Nursing and Midwifery profession and called on the government to “take immediate steps to employ the over 22,000 unemployed nurses rather than this attempt to hire cheap labour.

“We are not preventing SHS graduates from becoming Nurses or Midwives and urged such graduates passionate about working in the health sector to seek training from the appropriate institutions.

“Let us put on record that we are not in any way preventing SHS graduates from becoming Nurses and Midwives, but if they so wish to work in the health system, they should be trained in the appropriate institution and by qualified health tutors for the professionally accepted number of years for proper deployment into the health system,” the statement further warned.

The association says the move is disturbing as there are about 10,727 Nurse Assistants (Clinical and Preventive) who already had accessed the Ministry of Health (MoH) recruitment portal and were awaiting deployment.

“In total, there is a backlog of over 20,000 nurses and midwives of all cadres belonging to 2019, 2020, 2021 batches also awaiting employment,” the association indicated.

YEA had announced a programme which seeks to train over 5,000 SHS graduates nationwide to support nurses stationed at CHPS compounds by the end of August.

In a statement, GRNMA bemoaned the politicisation of the career is getting out of hand, adding any training that does not conform to its standard is a threat to the lives of Ghanaians.

“Recording of medical history and symptoms, conducting physical examination and providing bedside care requires special skills which can only be provided by trained health personnel.

“Any training of SHS graduates which does not conform to standards set out by the NMC will pose a threat to the lives of all Ghanaians, especially those in our rural communities whose first point of access to healthcare and in some cases the only access to health services are the CHPS compounds,” the statement lamented.

It has, therefore, as a matter of urgency, urged YEA to halt the intended training.

Below is the full statement:

The suspects, Prince Alhassan, Daniel Amoako Ampofo alias Tizzle, and Richard Kesse alias Baron, are reported to dupe traders by ordering goods online and opting for electronic payment via mobile money.

However, upon receiving the product, they generate and send a message purported to have been sent from the mobile money system of a network operator to the traders’ mobile number.

The message is to confirm the expected payment for the product.

Upon receiving the alert, victims failed to check their mobile money account balance but proceeded to hand over the product to the suspects only to find out later that they had been duped.

Narrating the incidents to Graphic Online, the Director of the Cyber Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), ACP Dr Herbert Gustav Yankson, said the suspects were arrested after one of their victims, a mobile phone dealer, reported the incident.

He said one of the accused, Ampofo, contacted the trader who had displayed an iPhone and an Apple Watch Series 6 on an online trading platform.

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Ampofo proposed that they meet at Lapaz-Papaye for payment of the items. When the trader arrived at the venue, he met Alhassan, Ampofo and Kesse in a wine unregistered Hyundai Elantra vehicle.

They then came out of the vehicle, and the trader handed over the iPhone and iWatch to Ampofo for inspection

Ampofo then asked Alhassan to pay GH¢6,700 to the trader using a mobile money transfer.

Alhassan sent a message indicating GH¢6,700 had been sent to the trader’s mobile money account; however, when the trader checked his balance, he found that no money had been transferred into his account.

Alhassan then showed the trader a message indicating that GH¢6,700 had been transferred from his account to the trader’s.

The three young men sat in the parked vehicle and drove off with the items during the discussion.

ACP Dr Yankson further indicated that police investigation led to the arrest of the three at Lapaz, and it was found that their modus operandi was to copy previous messages from mobile money transfers sent to them.

They edit such messages, then send them back to themselves and show the same to victims pretending that they had sent monies from their mobile money account to victims’ accounts.

Police Investigation showed that they had used the same method to successfully defraud others of more than GH¢20,000 in separate transactions.

ACP Yankson said it was also found that they rented the vehicles from auto companies for their fraudulent acts, making it difficult for their victims to trace them.