Deputy Health Minister Tina Mensah has told nurses who attended private health training schools that government is just doing them a favour by posting them.
According to her, such nurses are not in the position to mount pressure on government over their placement because the state has no responsibility towards them.
” We are doing them a favour by employing them. We did not bond them so we have no responsibility towards them. We are just doing them a favour,” she told Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Starr FM Wednesday.
The comment comes as nurses across the country protest for placement in the wake of the announcement that the state is recruiting health professionals across the country.
Some of the aggrieved nurses are those in the association of graduate nurses who say the government excluded them in the list announcement for recruitment.
Reacting to the concerns of the degree nurses, the deputy minister said efforts are underway to secure clearance for the concerned graduate nurses.
“They have given some financial clearance and they thought yours (degree nurses) was part but it wasn’t. So I told them that the forget the degree nurses and so they are working on it. Very soon, it will be sorted,” she said.
The Ministry of Health on Monday announced the recruitment of various professionals under the health delivery structure of the country.
It comes after the Finance ministry gave the health ministry clearance for the recruitment of the professionals.
“Following a Financial Clearance granted by the Ministry of Finance for the recruitment of 2016 batch of the above-mentioned categories of Health Professionals from the Public Health Institutions, the Ministry of Health wishes to inform the general public, particularly, qualified trainees who fall within the above description that it will commence recruitment process into the various agencies from Thursday, 21st March, 2019.
“Therefore, qualified trainees who are part of these groups whose clearance has been received (as indicated in the attached sheet) and intend to work in the various agencies under the Ministry of Health are requested to formally apply online by logging onto the online application portal https://mohcrp.com and follow relevant instructions to select the preferred agency (GHS, CHAG, KBTH, KATH, TTH, CCTH, Police Hospital, MHA, Prisons Service, Ahmadiya Health Service),” the ministry said in a statement.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5fm
