The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, GRNMA, has called on policy makers in the healthcare system to retool health facilities across the country and properly motivate its members to stay and work in Ghana.
The Association noted that some of the health facilities were in deplorable states.
The First Vice President of the GRNMA, Mr. Samuel Alagkora Akolgo, made the call in his remarks at the launch of the International Nurses Day celebration in Navrongo, in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality.
The remarks were in response to an appeal by Dr. Emmanuel Kofi Dzotsi, the Regional Director of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) for nurses and midwives to stay, and not leave the Region and country.
Mr. Akolgo said even with the existing infrastructure, the level of maintenance, obsolete equipment and in some facilities, the lack of basic equipment coupled with poor conditions of service frustrated and pushed members of the Association to leave for greener pastures. According to him, the quota system for study leave for nurses and midwives for the Region was also low.
Mr. Akolgo emphasized that equipped healthcare facilities, well-arranged compensation and motivational packages would enable nurses and midwives to stay in their home country.
