Some frustrated students at the School of Hygiene in Tamale are threatening to close down the school if they are not given jobs by within a week.
The students are accusing the Ministry of neglect, indicating that they have been left on their own since they graduated in 2011.
[contextly_sidebar id=”KXIMgxDocB9X8UR1Ha4sBo2MDOp7yrLr”]The situation, they say, has brought untold hardship on them since they are unemployed.
Speaking to Citi News, Spokesperson of the group, Ibrahim Abode said efforts to get the Health Ministry to post them to various regions so they can start working have proven futile hence their threat.
“We completed this school since 2011 and until now, we have not gotten our postings…what is even more oppressive is that at this stage or the point in time where Ghana needs people like us to help solve the sanitation problems they are setting us aside,” Ibrahim stated.
They have given government a one –week ultimatum to address their concerns or face their wrath.
“We are frustrated for now so the action we are trying to take now is that we are giving government one week. If we don’t hear anything about our postings, we are going to close down the school,” he said.
End protocol systems in nursing institutions
In another development, the Principal of Zuarungu Nursing training college Francis Ayaaba has called for an end to protocol systems in nursing training institutions.
He argues that the practice if not discontinued has the potential of endangering the nation’s health care system.
He made the comments during this year’s matriculation of the Zuarungu Nursing training college in the Upper East Region.
According to him, the institution is “always undated with a lot of requests asking for protocol systems“
He pointed out that the protocol system does not encourage professionalism in various health institutions.
He therefore asked government to take measures to rectify the challenge.
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By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana