{"id":233332,"date":"2016-07-22T07:23:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T07:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=233332"},"modified":"2016-07-22T07:23:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T07:23:26","slug":"trainee-nurses-reject-govts-ghc-150-allowance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/trainee-nurses-reject-govts-ghc-150-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"Trainee nurses reject gov’t’s GHc 150 allowance"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ghana Nurses and Midwives Trainees Association has rejected government\u2019s offer to pay them GHc 150 monthly as allowances.<\/p>\n
According to them, the amount is woefully inadequate per the memorandum of understanding they signed with the Ministry of Health in 2014.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”LesLgd3UQKiKLUSOKUrvaVkOvgvtHO84″]The Association was responding to a statement released yesterday [Thursday] by the Health Ministry to pay an amount of GHc 150 monthly to trainees as their allowances were reinstated<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n The allowance is to support 34,500 students who are currently pursing various levels of health professional training across the country.<\/p>\n We wont accept GHc 150 – Trainees<\/strong><\/p>\n But speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, President of the Ghana Nurses and Midwives Trainees Association, Godwin Asabire Akazeem, instead called for an increment in the allowance.<\/p>\n \u201cAs for the 150 Ghana cedis, we don\u2019t see it as something we have to accept because per the memorandum of understanding we signed in 2014,\u201d Mr. Akazee stated.<\/p>\n He explained further that \u201cwe were made to understand that if that 40 percent service allowance is going to be expressed in monetary value and given to us, it should be 50 percent the current amount of money they are taking now.\u201d<\/p>\n Highlighting the important to the nurses, Mr. Akazee cited the trainee\u2019s expenditure on bills and transportation among others.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was the need for the government to give them service allowance to help them foot their clinical bills and other things they do\u2026 the fight for their own accommodation, taking cars, going to the ward and coming back. It definitely has to be increased.\u201d<\/p>\n Why gov\u2019t scrapped allowances in the first place<\/strong><\/p>\n Government announced a scrapping of the allowances in order to remove the restrictions on admission to the various training institutions due to the huge amounts it had to pay in the form of allowances.<\/p>\n