{"id":157791,"date":"2015-10-06T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=157791"},"modified":"2015-10-06T20:21:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T20:21:06","slug":"govt-releases-over-gh%c2%a2-700000-for-psychiatric-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=157791","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t releases over GH\u00a2 700,000 for psychiatric nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Controller and Accountant General\u2019s Department has released money for the payment of outstanding salary arrears for nurses in the 3 psychiatric hospitals in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;OQSydumB2gtYLLK9npMfOvxivuMvPfj8&#8243;]A statement by the Ministry of Health stated that the Controller and Accountant General has released an amount of GH\u20b5756, 000 for the payment of the salaries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This comes after psychiatric nurses <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/10\/05\/over-7000-nurses-and-midwives-declare-indefinite-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\">laid down their tools<\/a><\/strong><\/span> after what they described as deceit on the part of the\u00a0 government for failing \u00a0to pay them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the statement,the ministry said that the payment was made \u201cto about 133 nurses who form part of some nurses to be paid outstanding arrears. Currently staffs of the Ministry of Health and Controller and Accountant General\u2019s Department are keying in the inputs for payment of the rest of the salary arrears as the system has been opened for this purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It also stated government\u2019s commitment to \u201censuring that all outstanding arrears are worked on and paid in the shortest possible time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry of Health therefore called on all nurses who are on strike to go back to work as the necessary steps are being taken to pay all the money that is owed them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Controller and Accountant General\u2019s Department has released money for the payment of outstanding salary arrears for nurses in the 3 psychiatric hospitals in the country. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;OQSydumB2gtYLLK9npMfOvxivuMvPfj8&#8243;]A statement by the Ministry of Health stated that the Controller and Accountant General has released an amount of GH\u20b5756, 000 for the payment of the salaries. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":117536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,43,38],"class_list":["post-157791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-chinese","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}