The Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has criticised the growing trend of health professional graduates\u00a0resorting to picketing at the Health Ministry to demand financial clearance and posting.<\/p>\n
He said these aggrieved graduates cannot expect the government to employ when there is no\u00a0budgetary allocation for them.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”IeumJtOkg2du3bnU6cFPygW9wLB3qVLN”]”There is nowhere in the world that somebody finishes school and says I am going to picket, sleep at the Ministry of Health and force them to take me whether they can pay me or cannot pay me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c…You don\u2019t employ somebody if you don\u2019t have money to pay or if the money is not readily available. If the person comes to work and you don\u2019t pay the person, that one I will agree if the person comes to sleep and picket at the place where he was employed. If you are not being employed, why do you go and picket at the ministry’s car park? Is it done anywhere?”\u00a0Dr. Nsiah-Asare said on Eyewitness News’ Point Blank <\/strong>segment.<\/p>\n Different classes of health professional graduates spanning as far back as 2015, have trooped to the Ministry of Health to demand clearance for posting into state health installations.<\/p>\n Most recently, in February, police personnel had to forcibly evict<\/a><\/strong> some 200 unemployed graduate nurses who pitched camp at the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n The government said it had provided financial clearance to 541 healthcare professionals who are expected to start work this March.<\/p>\n