{"id":360613,"date":"2017-10-10T08:23:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T08:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360613"},"modified":"2017-10-10T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T08:23:50","slug":"nursing-trainee-allowance-to-be-restored-today-amid-fanfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360613","title":{"rendered":"Nursing trainee allowance to be restored today amid fanfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Nana Akufo-Addo will today [Tuesday], announce the full restoration of the nursing trainee allowance at a ceremony in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region.<\/p>\n

The restoration of the allowance was noted as a key New Patriotic Party (NPP) campaign promise, after the John Mahama administration scrapped the allowance to allow the various training colleges to admit more students.<\/p>\n

It earmarked a students\u2019 loan scheme in place of the allowance.<\/p>\n

But the Mahama government\u00a0later agreed to pay a reduced allowance for the trainees temporarily, after protests, until such a time that they are finally moved onto the students\u2019 loan scheme.<\/p>\n

About 58,000 trainee nurses and midwives are expected to benefit from this restoration.<\/p>\n

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Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, Minister of Health<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, last week defended the decision<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to launch the restoration of allowances with a ceremony, as opposed to something simpler.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are launching [the restoration of the allowance] to demonstrate to Ghanaians that the government has honored its promise. We don\u2019t want to hide in a room somewhere, pay the allowance and that is the end of it. Ghanaians should know what we are doing,\u201d the Minister of Health told the Media after appearing before Parliament.<\/p>\n

He stressed that it was\u00a0necessary \u201cto communicate the good works of our President, and that is why are we are launching. People are happy; they want to jubilate about it and we want them to jubilate about it\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Nana Akufo-Addo will today [Tuesday], announce the full restoration of the nursing trainee allowance at a ceremony in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region. The restoration of the allowance was noted as a key New Patriotic Party (NPP) campaign promise, after the John Mahama administration scrapped the allowance to allow the various training colleges […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[2,11],"tags":[3,735],"class_list":["post-360613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-nurses-training-allowance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360613","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}