The leadership of the coalition of unemployed Nurses (2017 NAC and NAP) batch wish to draw the attention of the general public that the current financial clearance does not capture our members across the country and we will like to register our disgust and disappointment over the current developments from the Ministry of Health (MOH).
lt’s sad to note that the 2017 NAP /NAC batch who sat home for three consecutive years has not been treated fairly by the ministry.
This is the first time we are witnessing this kind of recruitment in Ghana since NAC/NAP was introduced. The ministry of health has shown us clear discrimination and neglect over our financial clearance.
The traditional mode of recruitment we all know in this country has been changed by this current minister and his team.
What we all know about the recruitment in health sector as far as nurses are concerned has been ignored and been pushed to suit the parochial interest .
The normal recruitment process we all know is that, the Nurses Assistant clinical (NAC) and Nurses Assistant Preventive (NAP) clearance always comes before the Registered General Nurse (RGN) and others. This is because the RGN always go through a mandatory service of a year before they get financial clearance. This is current development strange to us and our families.
We will like to let the general public and Ghanaians as a whole know that over 9,000 NAP/NAC unemployed Nurses who have completed in 2017 are still at home and are not part of this clearance issued by the ministry of health. It is sad and heartbreaking to see our government indulging such discrimination in this crucial time, where our health facilities are lacking nurses.
The ministry of health should absorb all the 2017 nurses not a particular group if indeed government wants us to believe he cares and is doing what he promised.
The government is deceiving Ghanaians that he has cleared all 2017 nurses, such a statement is frivolous, fictitious and Pointless to the unemployed nurses still at home who are confused and doesn’t know their way forward.
We are on this release calling on government and the ministry of health to immediately release the financial clearance for the 2017 NAP /NAC to join our colleagues in this recruitment else we shall rise. We are currently considering many options on our table and we shall outline them in the coming days.
If government thinks these groups are not beneficial to the development of our health system in the country, He should immediately stop training them across the country.
You can’t be using tax payers money in training them without utilizing their potentials especially at this critical moment where our health system is lacking human resources in battling this COVID-19 pandemic.
We will like to use this medium to appeal to our parents, guidance and all our sympathises and to let them know that our group is not part of this recruitment process currently ongoing, discrimination in our health sector today is more than coronavirus in the world.
Our members across the length and breadth of the country should as well be prepared for any out comes from us.
No need to remain calm at this crucial moment, stay awake and open your eyes and ears.
Thank you.
9th April, 2020.
….. SIGNED….
PRESS SECRETARY
Akugri Rashid
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ORGANISER
GEORGE Assuah
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OPERATION DIRECTOR.
Julius Torkto
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WOMEN ORGANISER
Zato Linda
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