The Ghana Registered Nurses Association (GRNA) has called for the speedy establishment of the West Africa College of Nurses and Midwives to provide specialised nursing training for nurses and midwives in the country.
The President of the GRNA, Mr Kwaku Asante Krobea, said the college, expected to be established in December, this year, would provide the much needed specialised training for nurses and enhance health service delivery.
Mr Asante was speaking at a meeting with selected nursing staff from the Central Region at the Central Regional Hospital in Cape Coast, as part of a working visit of the newly elected national executive of the GRNA in Cape Coast.
Mr Krobea said nursing was becoming more and more complicated with new emerging diseases which required specialised care.
He said the college, when established, would give nurses the opportunity to specialise in various areas of nursing and give Ghanaians the much need specialised nursing care.
Currently, he said, specialised nursing courses were being undertaken at teaching hospitals such as the Korle-Bu and the Komfo Anokye Teaching hospitals. He added that the college would concentrate all specialised courses in one institution.
Mr Krobea said nurses constituted the largest contingent of health workers and contributed significantly to the provision of healthcare services. He said the GRNA would continue to work to ensure that they had the right congenial environment for the nurses to put in their best.
He announced the GRNA had established a unit to provide counselling for nurses both home and abroad, on the nursing career to enable them make informed decisions and asked the nurses to be polite to patients.
The nurses urged the GRNA to help ensure that nurses got access to higher educational opportunities.
The Medical Director of the Central Regional Hospital, Dr Daniel Asare, called for more nurses. He said the 120 nurses currently at the hospital were woefully inadequate.
He said more nurses should be transferred to the region to ensure a smooth transition of the hospital to a teaching hospital.
The team also visited other health facilities in Cape Coast and others in the region.
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