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[ 2017-10-08 ]

Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, Minister of Health

Gov’t employs over 200 additional nurses   
Government has secured clearance for the
recruitment of over 200 nurses and health
professionals, according to the Minister of Health
Kwaku Agyeman Manu.

This adds up to the over 16,000 nurses already
admitted into the health sector.

“So far this year, we have employed just about
sixteen thousand of these nurses who were sitting
home. In the course of this week, we got financial
clearance to add two hundred and thirty-six
more,” he said.

In a bid to help nurses who were trained in
private health institutions, the Minister
confirmed that a request had been sent to the
Ministry of Finance for financial clearance.

“We have [sent a] request to Finance to enable
us also recruit some of those sitting at home who
did their training in private schools, and God
willing if we get that one in the course of the
next months left for the year to end, we will
continue to recruit them,” he noted.

Speaking to Citi News, Kwaku Agyeman Manu said
provisions have been made in the next budget for
the recruitment of trainees from private nursing
schools.

“If we are not able to do that, come next year
we have done adequate budgetary allocations, all
of them will come on board,” the Minister of
Health explained.

Quota system to limit unemployed nurses

The government’s introduction of a quota
admission system for nursing trainee schools, was
to help improve the quality of nurses in the
country, according to the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry believes this will allow training
institutions to produce nurses to meet the demands
of the health sector, thus reducing unemployment.

Speaking to Citi News on the new development,
the Public Relations Officer of the Health
Ministry, Robert Cudjoe, explained the impact the
quota system will have on the nursing training
schools.

“Some schools that were taking less last year
are taking more, and some that were taking more
are now taking less, simply because we did an
analysis and came to the conclusion that some
schools don’t have the facilities to admit the
number that they have been recruiting and that is
compromising quality,” he said.

Source - citifmonline.com



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