The Coalition of Unemployed Graduates of Nurse
Assistant Clinical and Preventive has threatened to force themselves at Jubilee
House and other government offices should the Ministry of Health renege on its
promises to post them.
The group says they have been home for the past 3
years since completion of school in 2019.
“It has been 10 months since the Ministry of Health
opened their recruitment portal for all cadre of nurses and midwives in Ghana
to choose their preferred region and agencies to be posted to. Both degree and
diploma nurse have since been posted but we the certificate nurses (community
nurses) have been left out without any explanation. Several attempt to seek
explanation has not been fruitful”, Apandago Charles, President of the group
noted.
The unemployed nurses claimed they are gradually
de-learning the knowledge and skills acquired in school since they’re not
practicing.
“We find it difficult to under why we are been treated
with discrimination because in the history of the recruitment process, no cadre
has been financially cleared to access the portal and left home for 10 months
without being posted.
“We are giving a one-week ultimatum to all Ministries
responsible for the delay in our posting (ministry of finance and ministry of
health) to do the needful else we will be left with no option than to storm
their offices and share it with them”.