In a wake of strike actions by doctors in the country, Acting Registrar of Nurses and Midwives Council of Ghana Felix Nyante has described strike actions by health service personnel as abomination saying the lives that will be lost as a result of the strike actions cannot be replaced.
The Acting Registrar of Nurses and Midwives Council of Ghana said this at a joint matriculation of health service trainees of five health training institutions in the region held at the Health Assistance Training School in Zuarungu over the weekend.
“Certain times you think you deserve to be given something and government says wait, let’s go to the round table and negotiate and you don’t have the patience and went on strike and as a result of your strike actions somebody’s father dies, somebody’s breadwinner dies’.
“Then in three week time government says the monies that you were requesting for has been avail to you, it is now in your bank account”. “You see that you do not have that power to go back to cemetery to bring back the lives that were lost as a result of your strike”.
“And certain times through our actions we kill people illegally and they don’t do anything to us’. The Upper East Regional Director of Health Services Dr. John Koku Awoonor-Williams also cautioned the nurse trainees to consider nursing as a profession than being perceive as an easy way of securing a job.
He said when trainees regard this perception; it often leads to poor customer care and clinical practice standards. Acting Upper East Regional Minister Alhaji Limuna Mohammed- Muniru said government is committed to improving the educational infrastructure through the provision of modern libraries equip with computers, lecture halls, staff bungalows, dormitories, to raise the standard of education in consonance with current global challenges.
In all, a total of 646 health trainees from the Bolgatnga Nurses Training College, Bawku Presbyterian Nurses’ Training College, Navrongo Community Health Nurses’ Training College, Bolgatanga Midwifery Training College, Zuarungu Health Assistance Training School were matriculated.
By: Joshua Asaah | A1Radioonline.com | Ghana
