You do not know your job – Private nurses tell the Deputy Minister of Health

Health News Saturday, March 23, 2019

Source: kasapafmonline.com

2019-03-23

The Coalition of Private Unemployed Nurses (COUPN) said that Deputy Minister of Health Tina Naa Ayeley Mensah did not have the skills to manage her office.

Deputy Minister of Health Tina Mensah told nurses who attended private health training schools that the government was doing them a favor by posting them.

According to her, these nurses are not in a position to put pressure on the government to place them because the state has no responsibility towards them.

"One thing I want to make clear to the private nurses is that we have no obligation to use them, we have no bond or memorandum of understanding that they must be completed and we use them. It is a favor that we give them and not an obligation, I want them to understand that it is not when they come to pick, it is when we use them. When they picket, it does not tickle us, "she told Bola Ray Wednesday on Starr Chat on Starr FM.

This comment comes as nurses across the country demonstrate to be placed following the announcement of state recruitment of health professionals across the country.

Some of the injured nurses are those of the Association of Registered Nurses who claim that the government has excluded them from the recruitment list.

But in response to the deputy minister's comments in an interview with Kasapa News, spokesperson for the Coalition of Private Unemployed Nurses (COUPN), Doreen Boateng said that the Hon. Tina Mensah is just not at the top of her job.

"Our mother is not aware of what is happening in Ghana. I am shocked that a woman with children is talking like that. If she claims that the government that employs me is just a favor, why then should I pay my nurse's license to the state. Why does the state ask questions of private nurses who must take our exams and not private schools asking questions? I do not know if she is not communicating with her boss, the Minister of Health. L & # 39; Hon. Agyemang Manu said in a week that we would have our permission, but she is sitting somewhere and saying something different. I do not know what is happening in this ministry, they do not sing the same tone.

Doreen Boateng added: The Hon. Tina Mensah does not understand her job, she does not even know what she's talking about. It is in the Ministry of Health pamphlet page 11 that the Government of Ghana will employ nurses who attend accredited schools, including private schools. The Ministry of Health has also printed a small booklet that is placed in all public health training institutions, which states that if it is not admitted to public schools, it is possible to enroll in accredited private schools. It is only the training we receive in private schools, my nurse's license does not show the school I attended, it contains my name, the Board of Nurses and Midwives and my registration number . I have to renew my license at GHC500 every year. How then can anyone say that he will render me a service by using it?