Over 1000 unemployed registered graduate nurses have threatened to hit the streets in a massive demonstration over government’s failure to secure them postings to healthcare facilities.
The unemployed nurses were tasked by the Ministry of Health in June to collate and submit a comprehensive data of both unemployed and employed graduate nurses to start the employment procedure but the group says nothing has since been heard from the health ministry.
[contextly_sidebar id=”HZ3gkkzP7ZeJJIi3KNBwh3oGdSZVT2no”]The President of the group, Benson Amoako lamented to Citi News that this development was becoming the norm as he noted that “Going back to 2011, we have graduates who have not been employed government and this has become a worry looking at the fact that this is a country were living standards have actually gone up and people.”
He stated that the group has been engaging the Ministry of Health for “the past three months and till now, we haven’t gotten any tangible response.”
“We have contacted the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations and personally I can say that the position of the ministry of health is not something very encouraging because they have given promises that were not fulfilled,” Mr. Amoako added.
Protest will be for nursing proffession
As a means of conveying its frustrations, the group of unemployed registered graduate nurses will protest government if nothing changes by August 3, according to Mr. Amoako.
“We have a much bigger plan… we have all our head of departments, our dean of students, all the student bodies coming together. The demonstration will not be only the graduates demonstrating. The profession itself is in some kind of trouple and from August 3, we will come out.”
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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana