Unemployed nurses to picket Health Ministry again

Europa

June 28, 2017 10:51 AM

Some members of the coalition in April this year called off their picketing at the Health Ministry after reaching an agreement with authorities to get them cleared financially for postings.

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The Coalition of Bonded Unemployed Diploma Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals has threatened to picket the Ministry of Health if its members are not posted before July 4, 2017 to begin work.

It will be recalled that in April this year, some members of the coalition called off their picketing at the Health Ministry after reaching an agreement with authorities to get them cleared financially for postings.

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, had then announced that they had secured the financial clearance for their postings from the Finance Ministry.

He said that the Chief Director at the Health Ministry had been directed to facilitate their postings to enable them start work on July 1, 2017.

But the coalition in a statement said it was disappointed at the Ministry as it is yet to receive any official communication as to when its members will be posted to any health facility in the country.

In effect, the Coalition said: “We are giving the ministry of health and all the stakeholders responsible for our postings to release our postings before 4th July, 2017 other than that we will be reporting to work at the health ministry on the 5th to 6th July, 2017 and when necessary, we will further report to the Flagstaff House on 7th July, 2017 to deliver a petition to His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the President of the Republic of Ghana, to intervene and get us posted immediately.”

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