[ 2016-05-24 ]

Government offers 4,799 nurses jobs

The Ministry of Health has recruited and posted
4,799 nurses who graduated in 2014 and 2015 to
various health facilities in Ghana.


The number includes psychiatry nurses, enrolled
nurses, community nurses and midwives, a statement
issued by the Ministry of Health and copied to the
Ghana News Agency on Monday said.

Statistics from the Nursing and Midwifery Council
gave the breakdown as follows: 1,268 registered
midwives; 56 registered community nurses, 507
registered general nurses (Psychiatry); 321health
assistants clinical; 2,389 registered general
nurses; and 258 community health nurses.

The statement said Mr Alex Segbefia, the Minister
of Health, gave the statistics when he attended a
Public Sensitisation Forum in Ho to help upgrade
the Regional Hospital into a Teaching Hospital.

He, however, directed all facilities to ensure
that staff to be engaged had their documents
processed on time.

“All facilities are to ensure that staffs to be
engaged have their documents processed early and
placed on the Mechanised Payroll to enable the
Controller and Accountant General to effect
payment of their salaries on time. This will
reduce the incidence of arrears paid to staff,”
he said.

The Ministry, he said, was in talks with the
Ministry of Finance to secure additional financial
clearance which would help engage nurses from
private training institutions and other graduate
nurses across the country.

Mr Segbefia assured trained nurses and those in
school of employment by the Ministry of Health as
government had initiated numerous health projects
throughout the country.

He mentioned the construction of the seven
district hospitals under the NMS Built to Care
programme, eight district hospitals project by
Euroget, the Ridge Hospital expansion project, and
the Legon Teaching Hospital project.

Other on-going projects are the Upper West and
East regional hospital projects, the Military
Hospital project in Kumasi and the 1,000 Community
Health and Planning Services (CHPS) compounds.

Mr Segbefia said as from 2017 all nurses
undergoing training would be employed in those
facilities to deliver quality healthcare to the
people.

He said due to the increased numbers of new
trainees and incentives, many nurses were willing
to be employed by the Ministry of Health and be
posted to any health facility nationwide.

He said government, with the support of its
development partners, had constructed and
inaugurated many CHPS compounds throughout Ghana.

CHPS compounds are the basic unit of health care
delivery systems in Ghana. Nurses are expected to
be posted to these facilities to take care of the
health needs of communities to address the
Sustainable Development Goals.

Source - GNA

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