The Minority in Parliament has raised concerns over what they say is 14-month delay in the payment of salaries to nurses across the country.
The Member of Parliament for Damongo, Samuel Abu Jinapor indicated that the prolonged delay in payment of nurses’ salaries undermines the effectiveness of a robust public healthcare system.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Thursday, March 12, 2026, he claimed that not only have nurses not been paid but a backlog of 13, 500 nurses are yet to be employed by 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 stated.
Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Health Committee of Parliament, Kurt Mark Nawaane refuted the claim by the Damongo MP that 13,500 nurses are unemployed.
He explained that the previous NPP administration employed 13,500 nurses before leaving office but did not make any financial provision to pay these nurses.
According to him, the NDC government has now placed these nurses on government payroll and salaries are being paid to them.
“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 noted.
