The Minority in Parliament has expressed concerns about a 14-month delay in the payment of salaries to nurses across the country.
The Member of Parliament for Damongo, Samuel Abu Jinapor, stated that the protracted delay in paying nurses’ salary threatens the functioning of a strong public healthcare system.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Thursday, March 12, 2026, he said that not only have nurses not been paid, but there is a backlog of 13, 500 nurses waiting to be hired by the government.
“Nurses in the public service of our country, nurses who have been recruited have not been paid salaries for 14 months. If we re going to build a robust public health system for our country, these are matters we have to prioritise where when nurses are recruited, they are paid.”
“Not only do we have 13,500 nurses who have been trained, equipped, ready and willing to work not being recruited but even those who have been recruited, 14,000 of them are working as we speak and yet for 14 months they have not been paid,” he said.
Kurt Mark Nawaane, the chairman of Parliament’s Health Committee, disputed the Damongo MP’s assertion that 13,500 nurses are unemployed.
He clarified that 13,500 nurses were employed by the former NPP administration prior to their departure, but they were not compensated.
He claims that the NDC government has now put these nurses on the government payroll and is paying them salaries.
“I want to correct one fact, the previous speaker said that 13,500 nurses are unemployed, I think that is factually wrong. 13,500 nurses were employed before the NDC came to power and they were not paid.”
“As we speak now, they have been kept on pay, they are being paid now so that is not correct,” he pointed out.
Source: newsthemegh.com