Ministry of Education denies reports of teachers’ and nurses’ trainee allowance cancellation
The Ministry of Education has responded to allegations claiming the cancellation of allowances for Teachers and Nurses’ Trainees, refuting them as baseless and without merit. In an official statement, the Ministry firmly denied any plans or intentions to terminate these allowances. The statement explicitly mentioned the Minister for Education, Hon. Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, clarifying […]
Exit of Nurses will hurt Ghana’s Health Care Delivery
The Ghana Health Service (GHS), has expressed worry about the growing number of nurses leaving the country to work in high-income nations, leading to concerns about a brain drain and its impact on Ghana’s healthcare system. Expressing the frustrations of the Service at a capacity-building programme for the first batch of newly posted hospital administrators […]
Nurses are not unpatriotic for leaving Ghana to seek greener pastures abroad – Assistant PRO
Assistant Public Relations Officer for the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, Mr. Philemon Agyapong has justified the migration of trained nurses out of the country to seek greener pastures abroad. According to him, nurses in Ghana are not treated fairly as they work under harsh conditions. “I don’t think nurses and Midwives in this country […]
Nationwide validation begins for 12,295 nurses posted for National Service
Management of the National Service Scheme, NSS has released postings of a total of twelve thousand 295 nurses who enrolled to undertake their one-year mandatory national service at various accredited health facilities across the country for the 2023/2024 service year. A statement signed by the Acting Director of Corporate Affairs, Ambrose Entsiwah said ”all the […]
Ghana patients in danger as nurses head for NHS in UK
The recruitment of nurses by high-income countries from poorer nations is “out of control”, according to the head of one of the world’s biggest nursing groups. The comments come as the BBC finds evidence of how Ghana’s health system is struggling due to the “brain-drain”. Many specialist nurses have left the West African country for […]
Tamale: Unemployed nurses picket over delayed postings
By Joyce Kantam Kolamong Some nurses in the Northern Region have picketed in Tamale to drum home their displeasure about the delay by the government in posting them. The unemployed nurses made up of Nurse Assistant Clinicals and Nurse Assistant Preventives who completed their training in 2019, took to the streets to present their petition […]
