Government To Recruit 40,000 Nurses In 2019
Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, Minister for Health, has announced government, will in February next year, recruit 40,000 nurses to help deliver quality health care to all.
He said this year the government did not recruit even a single nurse because of constraints and budgetary concerns, adding, it was working to ensure that financial clearance was given for such number of nurses to be recruited in February, next year.
Mr Agyeman-Manu made the announcement during the opening of the 12th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Conference of Heads of Health Training Institutions (COHHETI) in Tamale on Monday.
The week-long AGM affords members of COHHETI to amongst others, discuss issues of the health sector such as achieving universal health coverage, pre-service training: the critical success factor to improving the quality of care.
It is on the theme: “Contemporary Health Care Delivery: The Role of Health Training Institutions and other Stakeholders”.
Mr Agyeman-Manu, therefore, urged unemployed nurses to be patient as government put in place measures to employ them.
The Minister was also hopeful that by the end of this year, about 20,000 nurses would be recruited under the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) to augment the staff strength of the various hospital facilities across the country.
He advised nurses to register for NABCO recruitment as it was an important government intervention, whose remuneration was even better than what some public sector workers received, adding, working under NABCO would ensure that they did not forget what they learnt in school.
He said nurses working under NABCO would be absorbed under the health sector as permanent staff when the opportunity was available.
Mr Agyeman-Manu reiterating the need for health training institutions to teach students an additional international language such that trained nurses could easily seek employment in other countries.
He also urged health training institutions to incorporate customer care training in their curriculum to imbibe in nurses some discipline to attend to clients in a satisfactory manner.
Source: GNA
