Unemployed private nurses to get funding approval this week – Ministry of Health

Health News Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-03-19

The Ministry of Health has badured unemployed private nurses that they will soon be employed.

In a statement, the ministry said it was hoping to get financial clearance for the restless nurses by the end of this week.

At a press conference on Monday by the Coalition of Unemployed Private Nurses, the government decided to hold a protest if the government did not engage its members in the health sector in the next 10 days.

These nurses, who spent the night at the Ministry of Health, promised to do everything possible for the government to employ them.

Coalition spokeswoman Doreen Boateng said all attempts to obtain financial clearance were unsuccessful.

She also explained that President Nana Akufo-Addo and her government gave priority to state-trained nurses, a situation they described as regrettable.

"There are no plans to recruit trained nurses to the private sector in the health sector, as is the case for state-sponsored nurses, the government has made it clear that it will continue to prioritize to trained public nurses, said the president. state of the nation. "

"This is a clear example of discriminatory injustice. We are giving the government 10 working days to respond to this letter. We will press for our demands to remain until civil society understands that we are treated unfairly and until the government hears us. to do a mega protest dubbed "Ku me preko" to share our grievances, "she said.

But the Ministry of Health, in response to the threat of unemployed nurses, urged them to be patient because it is striving to provide them with a financial discharge this week.

"We are working feverishly at their [financial clearance] as well as. It's not as if the department was discriminating or doing anything about their situation. All we tell them is to be patient. We are convinced that this week we will be able to obtain financial authorization for them, so they must be patient. There is no need to demonstrate, "said Elorm Ametepe, Public Relations Officer, Ministry of Health.

Unemployed private nurses are made up of nurses trained in private nursing schools across the country.