Gov’t Recruits Mahama Nurses

Kwaku Agyeman Manu – Minister of Health

The
government has announced that it is in the process of employing more nurses for
the health sector.

A
statement signed by Deputy Minister of Health Tina Mensah said they are
engaging nurses who completed their training between 2012 and 2016, when the National
Democratic Congress (NDC) led by John Mahama was in power but failed to find
them jobs.

Per
the statement, all nurses who attended accredited private or government health
institutions are being absorbed.

“The
Ministry of Health wishes to inform the general public, specifically private
and public trained nurses who completed their training from 2012 to 2016 from
accredited Health Training Institutions across the country that recruitment
will commence from Monday, 1^st July, 2019 at 9:00 am,” according to
the statement.

The
statement entreated that “qualified trainees are requested to formally apply
online by logging-in onto the online application portal with this address: http://hr.moh.gov.gh and follow the instructions to select the
preferred agency under the Ministry of Health,” adding that “deadline for
submission of application is Friday, 12^th July, 2019.”

In
March, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) announced that it would be giving some
20,084 nurses financial clearance for employment.

The
financial clearance hint was given by President Akufo-Addo in February after the
trained but unemployed nurses voiced their concerns.

The
debate rekindled early this month when the President outlined plans to
collaborate with the government of Barbados to pave way for Ghana to send over
300 nurses to the Caribbean country.

President
of the Registered Nurses and Midwives Association, Dr. Kwaku Asante Krobea, in
a response, had said that the arrangement could benefit the nursing sector by
creating vacancies for other unemployed nurses.

The
Ghana Registered Nurses Association, on the other hand, expressed the fact that
the gap in the country’s nursing sector should be addressed before such
agreements are considered.

Minister
of Health Kwaku Agyemang-Manu recently said arrangements to send some Ghanaian
nurses to work abroad were underway, and disclosed that the process to organise
working visas had started.

Countries that the government is considering include Japan, Australia, and Canada.

By Melvin Tarlue

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