It cannot be true that 50,000 of Ghana’s total nurse population of 70,000 have been employed by the three-year-old Akufo-Addo government, former President John Mahama has said.
“The government said they’ve employed 50,000 nurses since they came and still nurses are picketing and demonstrating”, Mr Mr Mahama wondered in a Facebook Live transmission on Monday, 23 December 2019, adding: “I mean, it just shows that it’s not true”.
The 2020 flag bearer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) said: “Recently, we were told by the Nurses and Midwives Council or whichever body it is that the total number of nurses in Ghana does not exceed 70,000, so, how could you have employed 50,000 nurses? So, that’s a fallacy”.
Meanwhile, Mr Mahama also promised to end the no-bed syndrome, saying his next government, should he win the 2020 elections, intends to continue the works he started during his last administration in opening up the health sector, by building more hospitals with more beds and employing more nurses, doctors and paramedics.
“What we did is to expand access to healthcare by building new hospitals. You cannot employ nurses when you don’t have anywhere to post them. And that’s why we started all the district hospitals. And our policy, when we launched our manifesto, is that there would be a modern health facility in every district of this country depending on the population size of the district.
“It can be a health centre, it can be a polyclinic, it can be a district hospital, and then, I already announced that in the six new regions, we are going to build six new regional hospitals.
“We’re also going to open the University of Ghana Medical Centre, and operationlise it”, Mr Mahama promised.
All these, he said, “will lead to the employment of more nurses and doctors”.
He added: “We’re going to start Phase II of the Ridge Hospital project so that we can have more beds”.
“We want to end the no-bed syndrome”, Mr Mahama noted, decrying: “We shouldn’t have an emergency where you go to any hospital and they say that: ‘We don’t have beds, take the patient away’. Or even if they are forced to admit them, they go bring plastic chairs and put patients in them with the drip by their side. It is not the Ghana of the 21st Century”.
“And, so, we’re going to expand the healthcare sector so that we can bring in more nurses and paramedics. We’ll fully operationalise the Wa Regional Hospital. The programme that we had before we left office, we were introducing 6,000 new hospital beds and if every hospital bed requires three paramedics, that’s 6,000 x 3; you can imagine how many people we could have employed”.
Source: Class News
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Even if is 10, how many did you employ during your term Opana? Ghana is not heaven though, however Ghana has seen tremendous improvement as compare to the previous administration of JM, How many times do you hear the sound of generators across the country, an indication that the energy sector has seen much improvement, JM, where are the roads you claimed to have constructed, everywhere you go people are crying for roads, therefore the question is where the roads JM, Employment was canceled during your era by IMF because of mismanagement of the economic, there was a whole backlog of teachers , nurses and so many others institutions, is only those who don’t have bra!ns who will think of voting for you again. Some of haven’t forgotten about corruption infested your government, no single social intervention policy, you claimed to have built school, which government doesn’t build schools, we are talking about exclusive intervention policy which bears your signature.
THIS MAN HAVE NOTHING MORE TO SAY BUT ON A MISSION TO CRITIZE WHICH WILL HIT HIM BACK.
This Kanazoe ford bribe man has no message for voters.... Massa just tell us your programmes and stop this ***barred word***. You are now annoying some of us with these shallow infantile arguments without any message.
I think I know who this Kpodo is...shame on you!
Eii opana, u have any message?.
If Ghana has 70k nurses in all and you boast around that you have employed 50k new nurses, it means only 20k were originally employed. Woahwe nkrofor mathematics aa wodenam
Well done to the one who has been able to 60,000 out of your 70,000 unemployed nurses
Taking your figure of 70,000 unemployed nurses, you knew all that and did nothing about it. Rather you bought cars for small small girls. State funds not being used wisely.
Just shallow talk. You were a vice president of this country for 4 years, president for 4 years, and you don't have a fair idea of the number of nurses in the country? You also don't have someone you can call on to give you such information? Sad.
LET FIGURES TALK MAN,NOT WISHFUL THINKING.PROVE THOSE UNTRUTHS WITH FIGURES.