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The Graduate Unemployed Nurses and Midwives Association (GUNMA) has staged a protest in Tamale to voice their discontent over their unemployment.
The group is particularly critical of the government, the Ministry of Health (MoH), and the Ministry of Finance (MoF) for failing to provide financial clearance and permanent employment to over 75,000 graduate nurses and midwives who have completed their training and passed their Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) licensing exams.
They are demanding that the government clear the backlog of nurses and midwives from 2020, 2021, and 2022 who are awaiting their postings.
GUNMA alleges that qualified nurses and midwives remain unemployed, while the government has been hiring unqualified individuals, such as senior high school graduates with minimal training, to work in healthcare facilities instead them.
“The Nursing and Midwifery Council is mandated by the Health Professional Regulatory Act to secure, in the public’s interest, the highest training and practice for nurses and midwives in this country. If I have been trained and inducted and sit home for close to four years, where then lies their mandate?” one nurse, Abdul Rauf, questioned what the NMC is doing to alleviate their plight.
“Nurses should not do their rotation for close to a year before their allowances are released, nurses should not sit in the house for so many years before they are posted, nurses should not picket before they are posted, and believe it or not, throughout the world, nurses are the backbone of every country,” another nurse lamented.
tigpost.co
