Source: newsthemegh.com
In Tamale, the Northern Region, graduate unemployed nurses and midwives organized a demonstration to voice their extreme dissatisfaction with their current situation.
The group is expressing its discontent mainly with the government and its departments, particularly the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Finance (MoF), regarding these organizations’ alleged inability to provide funding authorization and permanent jobs for over 75,000 newly graduated nurses and midwives who received training at various recognized public universities and training centers.
The professionals’ licensure exams with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) were successfully completed.
The government is being urged by the disgruntled nurses to release the midwives and nurses who are backlogged in 2020, 2021, and 2022 and are waiting to be posted to serve the nation.
“The Nursing and Midwifery Council is mandated by the Health Professional Regulatory Act to secure, in the public’s interest, the highest training and practice for nurses and midwives in this country. If I have been trained and inducted and sit home for close to four years, where then lies their mandate?” a nurse, Abdul Rauf asked
“Nurses should not do their rotation for close to a year before their allowances are released, nurses should not sit in the house for so many years before they are posted, nurses should not picket before they are posted, and believe it or not, throughout the world, nurses are the backbone of every country,” a different nurse added.
The group says that although untrained people, such recent high school graduates, are hired to work in hospital wards with no training, qualified nurses and midwives are still unemployed and ignored by the government and its agencies.