TRAINED NURSES PICKET PARLIAMENT DEMANDING
URGENT EMPLOYMENT
Some aggrieved trained nurses have picketed at the
Parliament House ahead of the presentation of the 2022 Mid-year budget review
by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.
The unemployed youth say they have now become a burden
to their families and are fed up, after three years of sitting at home without
any job.
“We don’t understand why we have accessed the portal
together with the diploma and degree students and we are still in the house.
The degree holders are at post and the diploma holders too are at post but we
are still in the house.
Trained nurses picket Parliament demanding urgent employment
These unemployed nurses say they have become burdens
to their families
As of the time of filing this report, the frustrated nurses were just seen at the precincts of Parliament holding placards with various inscriptions.
Mid-year budget review
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, will soon
present the 2022 Mid-Year Budget Review in Parliament.
His expected to make his first official comments on
the decision to seek an IMF bailout after publicly stating that the country
would not go to the Bretton Woods institutions for help.
Mr Ofori-Atta will equally provide information on
revenue and expenditure in the first half of the year and the country’s current
budget deficit figures.
The Finance Minister was scheduled to deliver the
address on Wednesday, July 13, but the date was changed due to the negotiations
between government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Amid the various expectations shared by stakeholders,
the nurses want the Minister and the government to consider employing them
immediately.