Mr. Awula was accused by tutors of embezzlement through the violation of procurement procedures.

[contextly_sidebar id=”rEy8zQypiwsnT5byfVxvxdTcNkHrKtAA”]Deputy Minister for Health, Tina Mensah, told Citi News that the Principal is already repaying the monies to the school, although the Economic and Organized Crime Office [EOCO] is yet to complete its investigation into the matter.

“There was some allegation of monies being misused, so they took up those allegations and they worked on it. We have not seen the report, but we are going to talk to EOCO. We have also talked to the culprits themselves, that is the principal and accountant, and they confirmed that there are some monies they have to refund to the school,”she said.

The Minister also stated that such criminal activities will not be condoned.

Principal must go – Tutors

The spokesperson for the tutors, Edward Atim, said they are satisfied with the efforts of the Health Minister, but said the teachers will only resume work if the principal steps aside.

The impasse between the principal and tutors brought academic work to a halt from October 2017.

Tutors of the Bolgatanga Nursing Training College in the Upper East Region, locked up the office of the school’s principal, Bawa Awula, over allegations of abuse of office and misappropriation of funds.

The tutors, who threatened to boycott lectures, demanded that the principal steps aside to pave way for investigations into his conduct.

Numbering about 18, they took a unilateral decision to lock up the office of the Principal, accusing him of violating the Public Procurement Act in the procurement of goods and services, as well as neglecting the plight of both tutors and students.

Supervision in nursing training colleges

It appears supervision in most of the country’s nursing training colleges is quite weak, a situation that allows a lot of improper practices spearheaded by principals and other officials to thrive.

This has in some cases led to the interdiction of some principals accused of wrongdoing, with the recent one being the Principal of Tepa Midwifery and Nursing.

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By: Farida Yusif/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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Dr Abdul-Razak Dokurugu, the Deputy Director of the GHS in charge of Clinical Health of the Upper East Region made the observation during a joint matriculation ceremony held for new students of the Zuarungu Nursing Training and the Presbyterian Nursing Training Colleges at Zuarungu.

He said GHS was the largest body that employed a large number of nurses after the completion of their programmes, but was worried about the spate of indiscipline exhibited by some of them after employment.

He cited negative attitudes of some nurses towards patients as; attending to patients whilst on phone, bad dress code, lateness and laziness to work as some examples of indisciplined behavious nurses put up.

“As a Corporate Organisation,  we are looking forward to receiving higher trained and skilled nurses but will not countenance misbehaviours that are against the very core values of the Ghana Health Service”, Dr Dokurugu warned.

Mrs Rebecca L. Kpare, the Regional Officer of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana, who read a speech on behalf of Mr Felix Nyante, Registrar of the  Council admonished the student nurses to take their studies seriously and to become patient advocates after completing their programmes.

He gave the assurance that the Council would continue to review programmes to meet the modern trend of nursing and cited the recent introduction of the study of Sign Language, French in the Colleges in the country and Health Journal as part of the council’s programmes.

Highlighting some of the challenges confronting the Zuarungu Nursing Training College, the Principal of the College Mr Michael Yidana Mantamia mentioned the lack of accommodation for both staff and students, lack of furnished ICT Laboratory and Library and lack of means of transport.

Whilst lauding the efforts of Mr Dominic Ayinne, the Member of Parliament for the Bolgatanga East Constituency, for supporting the School, the Principal called on the Government and other Corporate bodies throughout the country to come to the aid of the School.

The Regional Minister, Mr Rockson Bukari, said that the ruling government had put in place measures to ensure that all stalled GETFUND projects were completed,  and assured the school that they would also benefit from such project.

A total number of 453 students from both institutions were matriculated.

Whilst the Zuarungu Nursing Training College matriculated 71 into General Nursing and 295  Clinical Nursing Assistants,  the  Presbyterian Nursing Training College matriculated 87 students for General Nursing.

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Source: GNA

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