Pay Our Allowa Or Face Our Wrath – Trainee Nurses To Govt

Trainee Nurses and Midwives across the country are asking government to pay them four months of their allowances or incur their wrath.

The government restored nurses' trainee allowances and committed to paying trainees on time but the nursing trainees say the government has reneged paying trainees allowances since September 2019.

Speaking to Citi News, the National Financial Secretary of the Ghana Trainee Nurses and Midwife Association (GNMTA), Abanga Abambila Agoswin, said the situation is taking a dire toll on trainees.

He warned that trainees will advise themselves should government fail to settle all arrears immediately.

“For four (4) months now starting from September 2019 till now no trainee nurse has received his or her allowance, we trainee nurses are actually disappointed over the distorted payment of our allowances. Last year (2019) when the payment was effected some trainees did not receive a penny the whole year and from September 2019 till now almost all nurses' trainees have not received our allowance.

We are disappointed in the government over the failure to pay trainee nurses allowances as promised; it is affecting our studies in the sense that, no principal of our colleges will allow us to attend lectures without full payment of our fees because they think we are always paid our allowances”.

Mr Abanga also indicated that trainees will accordingly advise themselves if the government does not immediately settle all arrears owed them.

“Government should pay our allowance in full and those who were affected should also be paid starting from January 2019 and we must express our disappointed in the government over this, you know we are in 2020 and there is no course for alarm we know what to do, we shall advise ourselves accordingly”.

—citinewsroom