The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives’ Association (GRNMA) says it was not against the employment of nurses and midwives under the Nations Builders Corps (NABCO).
Reverend Dr Kweku Asante-Krobea, President of GRNMA has however appealed to government to pay nurses and midwives under the NABCO the same salary of their colleagues who were already in employment.
Rev. Dr. Asante-Krobea said this because nurses and midwives, who had been mandated to render essential services, were going to offer the same services as their colleagues already in employment.
“We are not opposed to actions under NABCO, we want government to give nurses and midwives what they deserve as professionals.”
The President of GRNMA was at this year’s awards and closing ceremony of Military Nightingales Annual Week Celebration held at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra.
The week-long celebration was on the theme “Access to safe and Quality Health Care: Nurse and Midwives leading the advocacy.
Rev. Dr. Asante-Krobea further raised questions over the fate of nurses and midwives after serving three years under the NABCO.
“What happens to nurses and midwives who are not employed at their work places after three years under NABCO? Under the profession, they are expected to be promoted after three years of work,” he quizzed.
Rev. Dr. Asante- Krobea said the GRNMA was working with government in the recruitment of 27,000 nurses and midwives adding that by “next week we will see positive response from government.”
He said the Military nurses and midwives represented their hope since the demands of their employers had been difficult and nurses and midwives had in recent time been targets of insults and vilification because roles of some members lived much to be desired.
Despite this, Rev Dr Asante-Krobea said there were still some “Nightingales” among members and encouraged them to do what they were known for and the association was going to replicate 54 room facility for nurses across the country and indicated that it was ready to provide one of such edifices at the 37 Military hospital in Accra.
Source: GNA
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Kwame I agree with you, in the civilized world, government don't give employment so you find your own job to do after school, some of them were home for 4-3 years with nothing from the then government to even support them but they were able to survive,there us a new government with compassion who said,I don't want you to stay home like other professionals and graduates so, for now there is a program called NABCO which will keep you busy and earn something till you get clearance and you come out with chest up, we don't want NABCO but clearance, the money for NABCO is not sufficient fir us,meanwhile ndc gave you nothing for 4-3 years and nobody complained, nobody demonstrated but they had the nerves to demonstrate against a government who was trying to fix them, showing them inscription '2020 WE GO SHOW NANA' and who cares about you showing the one who want to fix you and bringing the one who will let you stay home! f000**000ls! you've forgotten a government just left who created your woes, a government just left who could dismiss you as an IMF conditionality! and who cares if you prefer that government! reject the NABCO and stay home and show Nana for ndc to employ you if they could they would have done that in power! Akufo Addo don't need to be president before he can eat, but for the good of the country, if you were quiet for the ndc to destroy Ghana for 8 years but impatient for the NPP to fix the mess ndc created then wait for the ndc! I'm a true Ghanaian who want Ghana to progress and prosper but that doesn't go with impatience so will never support people who will put pressure on this forward match of this country! these nurses are too much and have exhausted the sympathy we would have giving them. This government didn't create the unemployment for them but the ndc who they are going to show Nana and bring them back to continue their create l000t and share, but GOD FORBID it will never happen ndc will come back to impose hardship on Ghanaians, to come and create l000t and share and insult, show of arrogance and disrespect to our leaders and the country. Look for who created your unemployment first before you blame who is trying to help fix you. We will forever Vote Nana !
Hmmmm, if all professionals should also demand same, what will be of the employer. We should not let this nurses people who study for 3 years hold us to ransom. University graduates with superior learnt skills are managing their transitions. Politicians should stop pampering this buses and cohort by stopping the bonding. After school, they should secure their own employment.