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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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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