The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) said that it fears agitations from next week after the Ministry of Health announced that financial clearance has been secured for 15,200 nurses and midwives who qualified between 2020 and 2024.
The President of GRNMA, Perpetual Ofori Ampofo spoke exclusively with our labour correspondent Daniel Opoku in Accra on July 30.
After the Ministry of Health issued the financial clearance for the 15,200 nurses, tensions have begun rising among practitioners of the profession.
Reports suggest that these nurses and midwives are at a lost as to which batch the financial clearance covers.
Already, there are about 40,000 nurses and midwives from 2021 till date which are yet to receive financial clearance.
Mrs Ofori Ampofo expressed fears there could be more agitations from next week.
“If they agitate, how does it affect me? It doesn’t affect me in any way. It will affect the government, it will affect the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance, and it will affect the government in total,” she explained.
“If somebody is at home and waiting to be employed and knows that financial clearance has come, obviously because we are the next batch awaiting employment. It is our turn, and then to see that other batches behind us are getting employment, that’s where the problem will be,” Mrs Ampofo noted.
She asked the ministries of Finance and Health to secure another financial clearance for the remaining nurses and midwives.
“My interest as President of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives’ Association, representing the interest of our younger colleagues who have also qualified to be employed, is to see to it that they get their posting done and they are able to practise what they have been trained to do. That is my interest,” she stressed.
According to the GRNMA President, “If financial clearance has come, it is a reward for the hard work we have all put in in terms of engagement that has gone on over the past period. So if the clearance has come, it is good news. It is the application of the clearance we are sensing that based on the communication that has recently come from the Ministry of Health, it may be problematic.”
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