The “Coalition of Unemployed Graduate Nurses Assistants, Clinical and Preventive” on Tuesday embarked on a demonstration in Tamale to draw the attention of President Akufo-Addo about their lack of postings since completing their training in 2019.
The group, typically made up of the 2019 batch of certificate nurses, stated that about ten thousand, seven hundred and twenty-seven (10,727) of them have not been posted and are still home despite several attempts.
Mengmi Franci, Vice President of the coalition, stated that “having accessed the ministry of health (MOH) clearance portal for our recruitment, we have also selected our preferred regions and agencies [Ghana Health Service, Christians Health Association of Ghana, Teaching Hospitals etc.] since November 10th, 2021. The countless follow-ups to the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ghana Health Service (GHS), Ministry of Minance (MOF), and all stakeholders to get us posted yielded no results.”
“We are also Ghanaian youth, trained with the requisite skills and tax payers’ money to render health care services to the good people of this country, yet several years after our training, we are still at home without employment and de-learning whereas our services are needed in the various health care facilities in this country,” he added.
“We were laid off from all private entity duties after it was publicly announced that all the 2019 cadre of nurses had been recruited. We have now turned into liabilities to our families,” he lamented.
The group called on President Akufo-Addo to immediately intervene by directing the appropriate authorities responsible for their postings to post us by the end of September 2022, failing which they will picket at the Jubilee House.
Their petition was received by the Regional Coordinating Director, Alhaji Alhassan Issahaku, on behalf of the Northern Regional Minister.
