{"id":250555,"date":"2016-09-22T13:12:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=250555"},"modified":"2016-09-22T13:12:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:12:52","slug":"no-allowance-no-vote-trainee-nurses-midwives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/no-allowance-no-vote-trainee-nurses-midwives\/","title":{"rendered":"‘No allowance, no vote’ – Trainee nurses, midwives"},"content":{"rendered":"
Scores of trainee nurses and midwives on\u00a0Thursday\u00a0morning poured out onto the streets of Accra to express their anger with government for refusing to pay allowances they said were due them.<\/p>\n
The demonstration was also to advocate for the employment for all qualified nurses and midwives as the aggrieved nurses complained that the government has failed to create job opportunities for them.<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The protesting nurses and midwives trainees said the\u00a0National Democratic Congress (NDC) government risked losing their votes if it did not show any commitment to addressing the pertinent issues affecting them.<\/p>\n The nurses who had tied red bands on their wrists, heads, some around their arms marched through the streets of the city chanting war songs.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n They marched from the Obra spot at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle through some principal streets of Accra and converged on the Hearts Park to present their petition to government.<\/p>\n Some of them were holding placards with inscriptions such as; \u201cAn hungry nurse will snatch Mahama from his wife\u201d, \u201cNo allawa, no vote\u201d, \u201cMr. President, just the allawa\u201d and \u201cSir Mahama, where is our paper, we deserve better\u201d.<\/p>\n