The 2017 induction ceremonies for the over 18,000 nurse Assistants, nurses and midwives who qualified in 2016 across the regions in Ghana have been zoned into four groups.

[contextly_sidebar id=”9NvGJJR3DShyVwmXPctojMAHVU2e8ZHM”]The group consisting of Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions, was conducted in Bolgatanga, the regional capital of the Upper East.

Inducting the nurses into the profession, the Registrar of the Council, Felix Nyante, urged them to abide by their job description, legal and ethical responsibilities.

The Registrar also urged them to use the laid down channels in addressing their grievances instead of resorting to demonstrations and strikes.

Dr. Vida Yakong, the Head of the Department of Midwifery at the University for Development Studies, expressed regret that in spite of the wealth of knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired by the nurses at the health training institutions, majority of them do not put them into use to help improve upon the health status of clients.

She attributed the problem to lack of equipment, supplies and heavy workload among others.

“Nurses dispense comfort, compassion and care without even a prescription. So you realize that it does not matter the type of qualification that you have, but what matters is that our main focus remains the same”, Dr Yakong said.

She said although the expectations of the profession were huge, nurses should let the core values of their profession, which calls for serving humanity to be their binding principle.

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Source: GNA

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This according to the council was part of measures to get Nurses and Midwives deliver to expectation.

The new online system is to ease the laborious processes associated with the manual system, as well as strengthen the capacity of the council.

The council has also introduced a therapeutic communication course to aid in an effective and efficient healthcare delivery in the country.

Registrar of the Council, Felix Nyante made the announcement at the Council’s 2017 mid-year review at Nsuta in the Ashanti region on the theme “Peak Performance”.

He said the Dutch Government has provided grant to the Council to revamp its examination processes and procedures.

Mr Nyante indicated that the grant is also to support the Council to strengthen its organizational capacity to conduct efficient, effective and credible licensing examination.

He noted the Council wants to focus on ICT deployment to accelerate on performance.

“Ghanaians should expect Nurses and Midwives delivering up to their expectations. So that when they go to the hospital, the attitude of Nurses towards them alone will create a therapeutic environment for them to get healed and the not the usual prescriptions and giving medication”.

Chief Director at the Ministry of Health, Dr Afisah Zakariah, commended the Council for its effort to introduce the online licensing examination next year.

According to her, the council has attained top achievement in its operation with the 2015 to 2019 strategic objective.

She attributed the council’s achievement to good leadership and staff commitment to excellence.
Dr Zakariah indicated that the online examination will ease the laborious processes experienced in the old manual system and will also go a long way to make licensing examination in Ghana trustworthy.

She charged the council to be fully decentralized to enable nurses and midwives carry out their engagements at the council’s regional office without traveling to Accra.

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According to PARDA, the deficit of midwives at health care facilities in the country highly accounts for recorded maternal and new born mortality and hence needs urgent attention to reverse the situation.

The Director of PARDA, Dr. Micheal Wombeago disclosed this at a community durbar at a suburb of Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region.

Dr. Wombeago says though communities and households prevent pregnant women from accessing antenatal care, skilled deliveries still remains a challenge.

“It is not surprising that we are recording high level of neonatal mortalities and neonatal infections are as a result of the resistances we receive at the communities and the households in preventing the pregnant women from assessing skilled services and deliveries at the facilities. It is also a truism that most of the centers do not have midwives. For a center to deliver one pregnant woman it needs at least three midwives which is the ideal but because we don’t have we are advocating for just one and even some CHPS compounds do not have.”

Dr. Wombeago appealed to government to swiftly intervene to save more lives.

“There are a lot of midwives who are not employed ,which means government cannot employ them or maybe the government is not properly informed,  that is why they are not there. There are some large communities who have populations ranging between fifty to seventy thousand and they don’t have a midwife, there is a CHPS compound but no midwife.

We have appealed to government through the Ghana health service, we have told them the areas where there are no midwives and what they can do if they should send them there but possibly the issue comes back to the ability to employ”.

The project funded by UNICEF through the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and implemented by PARDA is aimed at sensitizing community members on the benefits of antenatal and post natal care and as well as delivery at health centers and exclusive breastfeeding to help drastically reduce maternal and neonatal mortalities.

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The demonstration is to press home their demands for government to pay trainee nurses; and midwives some allowances due them, and also ensure employment for all qualified nurses and midwives.

The demonstration was earlier scheduled for Monday September 19, but the Police did not grant allow it saying it had inadequate men to ensure orderliness.

We have green light now

Speaking to Citi News, President of the Association, Akazee Godwin Asabire, said the Police have now given them the green light.

“Although it was supposed to come off on September 19, which the Police prevented us; we now have been granted the permit which has given us the guts to have the demonstration come today September 22nd.”

Asabire explained that, they are demonstrating because several pleas they have made to the stakeholders involved have failed to yield any positive results.

Demo not partisan one

“We have given out stakeholders so much time and respect to resolve our issues for us; but it like anytime we give them the opportunity to resolve the issue, they always treat us to their advantage. We are students and we want this issue to be resolved because it has a major impact on our training. We want the issue to be resolved for us, this issue that we are pursuing is not partisan issues and nobody should ever say that somebody is being pushed by a political party to pursue another political agenda, no” he insisted.

Venue for demo He said they will converge at the Obra Spot at Kwame Nkrumah Circle around 8:00am; and go through some principal streets of Accra; and finally end at the Accra Hearts of Oak Park “where we will be expecting the Chief of Staff to meet us and receive our petition.”
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The demonstration is to press home their demands for government to pay trainee nurses; and midwives some allowances due them, and also ensure employment for all qualified nurses and midwives.

The demonstration was earlier scheduled for Monday September 19, but the Police did not grant allow it saying it had inadequate men  to ensure orderliness.

We have green light now

Speaking to Citi News, President of the Association, Akazee Godwin Asabire, said the Police have now given them the green light.

“Although it was supposed to come off on September 19, which the Police prevented us; we now have been granted the permit which has given us the guts to have the demonstration come tomorrow, Thursday September 22^nd.”

Asabire explained that, they are demonstrating because several pleas they have made to the stakeholders involved have failed to yield any positive results.

Demo not partisan one

“We have given out stakeholders so much time and respect to resolve our issues for us; but it like anytime we give them the opportunity to resolve the issue, they always treat us to their advantage. We are students and we want this issue to be resolved because it has a major impact on our training. We want the issue to be resolved for us, this issue that we are pursuing is not partisan issues and nobody should ever say that somebody is being pushed by a political party to pursue another political agenda, no” he insisted.

Venue for demo

He said they will converge at the Obra Spot at Kwame Nkrumah Circle around 8:00am; and go through some principal streets  of Accra; and finally end at the Accra Hearts of Oak Park “where we will be expecting the Chief of Staff to meet us and receive our petition.”

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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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Members of the committee who were drawn from all the Metropolitan and Municipal and District Assemblies(MMDAs) in the ten regions presented an over view of what is happening in sanitation and waste management in the country.

The Minister said, he requested the directorate for environmental health to convey the meeting so as to identify the problem areas in the various regions and find out how possible to solve them.

According to the Minister, the ministry had not signed any contract or entered into any agreement with any sanitation and waste management company for payment to be made; rather, MMDAs are responsible for such payment, since they collect revenues from the people.

He said the presentations made by the MMDAs would help the Ministry to come out with a lasting solution on curbing the menace and finding out how government would help in funding waste management in the country.

Mr Oppong-Ofosu tasked all district assemblies to prepare an action plan to deal with waste management under their domain.

Naa Lenason Demedeme, acting Director of Environmental Health Service Department of the Ministry said the issue of sanitation should not be a problem that Ghana cannot solve, adding that MMDAs collect money from the people or traders so they should make sanitation management their responsibility.

He lauded the presentation by the MMDAs and said this would enable the Ministry to find solution to problems that the assembly cannot solve.

“The exercise is a good one, and I hope it would be sustained, once it is sustained, Ghanaians would benefit from it”, he added.

Source: GNA

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