Your picket does not tickle the government – Dep. Minister of Health to unemployed private nurses

General News on Thursday, March 21, 2019

Source: kasapafmonline.com

2019-03-21

Deputy Minister of Health Tina Naa Ayeley Mensah urged unemployed private nurses to refrain from picketing for jobs, as their actions did not move the ministry.

The Coalition of Private Unemployed Nurses (COUPN) has issued a 10-day ultimatum to the government to find a job for its members or face a protest.

The group accused the government of flagrant discrimination in securing its members. jobs.

The injured nurses, who claim to have been at home since 2012, explained that they had participated in several discussions with the ministries concerned to have their grievances dealt with, but to no avail.

The angry nurses subsequently submitted to the government a 10-day ultimatum for appropriate responses to their situation, failing to hold a series of protests across the country.

The spokeswoman for the group, Doreen Boateng, told reporters at a press conference in Accra on Monday, March 18, 2019, that the president had promised not to discriminate against any group of people but had denied his vows, which proves that government nurses trained in private institutions are "irrelevant".

Hundreds of qualified nurses from private institutions besieged the premises of the Ministry of Health in 2017 for the same problems.

They challenged the presence of the police, forced themselves into the ministry and suspended their activities temporarily while sleeping during the night.

Speaking to Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Starr FM Wednesday, Hon. Tina Mensah, also MP for Mallam Gbawe, said that the government is only promoting private nurses by hiring them; they should therefore give up all unnecessary pressure.

"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 sting us, it does not tickle us because we have to go to the Department of Finance and everybody wants it, every department gets its budget from the Department of Finance. It is therefore possible to employ staff as and when. "