Patients at the Manhyia Government Hospital in the Ashanti Region have been left stranded following an industrial action by nurses in the facility. The Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association GRNMA in the Ashanti Region on Friday December 2,2022 began a strike to protest government’s failure to sack …
Read More »Lecturers at Nurses and Midwives training institutions to strike over quota system, interview proceeds, others
Nurses Educators’ Group (NEG), a specialized group under the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association has served notice of its intention to embark on industrial action on , August 17,2022 to demand better conditions of service. The group who are responsible for supervising the academic works of nursing trainees in …
Read More »Nurses, midwives union threaten strike over COLA
The leadership of the Union of Professional Nurses and Midwives, Ghana (UPNMG) has asked the government to “pay all Public Sector Workers” a Cost Of Living Allowance (COLA) to avert further industrial actions. The Union says it is surprised at the laxity with which the welfare of nurses and midwives …
Read More »Scrap nurses and teacher trainee allowances – Agyeman-Duah to Gov’t
A former Senior Governance Adviser at the United Nations, Prof. Baffour Agyeman-Duah has advised the government to review a number of policies including the nurses trainee allowance. Speaking to Francis Abban on Morning Starr Wednesday, Mr. Agyeman-Duah noted that despite the fact that paying nurses allowance was a political promise by the …
Read More »S/R: Central Gonja nurses, midwives declare ‘no security, no posting to Boachipe CHPS’
The Central Gonja branch of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) has said until the security of health workers is guaranteed and enhanced, no health worker must be posted to the Boachipe CHPS in the Savanna region. The group’s comment follows a shooting incident that occurred at the …
Read More »KATH Emergency Unit risks closure as nurses, doctors contract coronavirus
We are stressed but trying our best – KATH medical doctor Health Ministry needs to revise two weeks isolation policy for nurses, doctors – Prof Poku Ghana’s active cases rise to 9,534 Medical Director of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Professor Baffour Kofi Poku, has disclosed that many health …
Read More »South Africa rejects Zimbabwean nurses
South Africa’s Public Health Department’s Directorate has started rejecting applications by health workers from Zimbabwe on the grounds that its neighbour is currently facing a staff crisis due to migration. This was revealed in a letter to some Zimbabwean applicants last week, which was signed by the South African …
Read More »Record number of skilled nurses and midwives leave Korle Bu for UK, other destinations
It has come to light that a record number of skilled nurses at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana’s biggest referral hospital, have left the facility for greener pastures abroad or in other Institutions within the country. According to the 2021 Mid Year Report, not only young ambitious nurses …
Read More »Video of nurses being taught how to do the doggy style goes viral
Ghanaian Nurses A video that has gone viral on social media has shown what happens in the classroom of nurses. The video reveals a set of nurses being taught how to bend and position their bums to make the doggy style more pleasurable and effortless. From what we gathered, the …
Read More »Nurses Training Council summons Nalerigu Training College Principal over viral twerking video
The principal for the Nalerigu Nurses Training College has been summoned by the Nurses Training Council after a video of students twerking at a dancing competition went viral. This was disclosed by the Principal when he was invited by the Police over the dancing competition which was in violation of …
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