The National Executive Board (NEB) of the Ghana Nurses-Midwives Trainees Association (GNMTA) has threatened to embark on a strike against the government if their financial clearance to work isn’t done by the end of the month.
They claim the government hasn’t fulfilled any of the numerous [ads1]promises it gave them.
According to them, the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, gave the assurance and stated that the clearance would be ready by mid-July but “we are in August and nothing credible and tangible has happened”.
In June, there were reports that the Ministry of Finance has gotten the financial clearance to finally employ them.
“What is preventing the government of the day from releasing financial clearance for the employment of these nurses and midwives if actually they have been budgeted for?” GNMTA quizzed.
In a statement released to the press, they threatened to embark on a “One Million Walk” through the principal streets of Accra.
They stated: “As part of this demonstration, we are calling on our parents, trainee nurses and midwives, rotation nurses and all graduate unemployment nurses and midwives (GRNMA), national, regional and district executives, our senior colleagues (staff, nurses and midwives), sympathisers, opinion leaders and members of the general public to join us in this massive demonstration to register our displeasure as unemployed nurses and midwives to the government due to the manner in which they have pitifully handled the unemployment issues of graduate nurses and midwives, which, in the end, will have adverse effect on society at large.”
They also said they have had a series of engagements with the Ministry of Health to inquire about their financial clearance since 2017 but to no avail.
