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About 17,000 new applicants will be admitted as freshmen in the various nursing training institutions in October of this year.
million. Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, announced that the allocation of funds had been sufficient in the 2018 budget to accommodate new entrants.
million. Ofori-Atta said in his review of mid-year budget policy on the 2018 budget draft in Accra on Thursday . with the reinstatement policy of the trainee nurse's allowances, an amount of 311,988,400.00 GH ¢ was allocated in the 2018 budget to pay the allowances of 68,000 trainee nurses for the 2017-2018 and the first half of the year. Academic year 2018/2019. At the end of June 2018, GH $ 122,400,000 was released to pay the benefits of 51,000 beneficiary trainees, "he said.
The Minister indicated that the sum of GH $ 177,511,600.00 was allocated to 49,032 trainees. He said the National School Feeding Program had recruited 8,000 new caterers and introduced new food services, which accounted for 44% of GDP. the caterers' contracting guidelines, which required caterers to purchase food from local farmers and fishermen.
A total of 2,174,000 kindergarten and primary students compared to 1,671,777 students registered in 2017 now benefit from the program making the difference of 501,536.
The program amounted to 423,795,500.00 GH ¢, of which 229,310,000.00 GH ¢, or 54.11%, were released.
million. Ofori-Atta said that a sum of 168,369,800.00 GH had been allocated for the implementation of livelihoods against poverty. (LEAP), of which GH ¢ 78,293,067.00, or 46.5%, had been released during the first and second quarters of the year. [19659002] He said that to date, a total of 550,000 LEAP beneficiaries have been registered with the NHIS or have renewed their expired cards.
Three (3) successive bimonthly payments have been made to 213,044 households throughout the country since the beginning of the year
Source: GNA
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