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Over 13,000 Nurses demonstrate over certificates

By CitiFMonline
Health Over 13,000 Nurses demonstrate over certificates
MAY 30, 2016 LISTEN

Over thirteen thousand Community Health Nurses have declared a strike over some challenges they have with their certificates.

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The nurses, are unhappy the Health Ministry gave them certificates with the title Nurse Assistant Prevention instead of Community Health Nurses after completing their certificate programmes.

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They also claim they have to cater for the logistics they need to work with, from their own pockets  without any support from government.

At a press conference today [Monday], President of the Association, Esther Bamfo, said their intended action is to get government to heed to their calls.

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“We have challenges with our promotion. Some have spent eight, eleven years, seven years, six years on the job and there is no promotion for them and no opportunity for them to progress. The logistics even to work with are not there.

“What we saw is that about 90 percent of community health nurses have used their own pocket money to buy motorbikes. Fueling and servicing them on their own, and it is these same motorbikes that they go to work with and bring data for Ghana Health Service and mother Ghana  to send to WHO, UNICEF and what have you for donations to this country and these are the people being treated this way.”


By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
                                                                                                          

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