The restored monthly allowances of nurse-trainees will cost the government Gh¢232 million this academic year, according to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Restoring the allowance was an integral campaign message of Akufo-Addo going into the 2016 polls after the Mahama administration cancelled it in 2014. Speaking during the launch of the restored allowance Tuesday, President Akufo-Addo said about 58, 000 health trainees comprising nurses and midwives will be paid monthly allowance of Gh¢400 each during the 2017 and 2018 academic year.
“Today is a happy day for the people of Ghana. The restoration of this allowance was of utmost importance. It was not meant for political vote. We think it was necessary to provide the relevant incentive to make it possible,” Akufo-Addo told the excited crowd in Sunyani.
According to him, the cancellation of the allowance in 2014 “brought untold hardships to 1000s of midwives and nurses.”
“Many of your colleagues were demotivated and demoralised. The NPP government heard your cry and promised to restore the allowances. I’m ready to fulfil the pledge we made to you,” Nana Addo noted.
He assured his “professional cynics and skeptics” the restoration of the trainees’ allowance has come to stay.
“I wish to assure you that with the proper management of our finances, the nation’s budget can accommodate it. I have chosen to invest in the education and future of our young men and women,” the president opined.
The trainees who were visibly happy over the restored allowance expressed their gratitude to the government through the health minister Dr Kwaku Agyemang Manu.
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total waste. rolled them on the student loan scheme. use the funds to build CHPS Compounds to employ them when they graduate which will improve health care in our rural areas in the long run. if this not a waste tell me what is it.
I always say, any party that was formed by one person does not live to see the future. ndc is surviving because Rawlings lives. When he dies, he will go with his party, Check- CPP-Kwame Nkrumah. NAL-GBEDEMA, Dr, Bilson's party ,PNC, -Dr, Limann, NDC will be like defragmented CPP. NDC is scared Mr President Law is doing wonders. They collected those nurses' money and chopped. Ghanaians are not the S.T.U.P.I. P. to give this country to these hungry grasscutters to come and eat this country agAin. their end is coming. They WILL SOON BE A FORGOTTEN HISTORY. I CALL THEM MONEY EATERSThey can't even get a leader how much more win an election?
I THOUGHT, A BRILLIANT APPROACH TO NATION'S DEVELOPMENT SHOULD BE TACTICAL AND SUSTAINABLE. THIS WHOLESALE APPROACH OF TREATING EVERY NURSING STUDENT AS POOR WILL NEVER HELP GHANA DERIVE UTMOST RESULT. A SMARTER APPROACH IS TO CREATE A REVOLVING FUND IN A FORM A STUDENT LOAN WHICH IS A TWO PRONG APPROACH: ONE DESERVING NEEDY STUDENTS WILL ACCESS, NATURALLY, WITHOUT QUOTA SYSTEM, MORE NURSES COULD BE ADMITTED. AFTER 3 YEARS IN NURSING SCHOOL, NURSES NEED NEW HOSPITALS AND EXPANDED AND IMPROVED FACILITY TO WORK. WHILE WILL A SMART GOVERNMENT SPENT ALL MONIES ON RECURRENT EXPENDITURE.
NANA PLS CONTINUE TO DO POLITICS WITH OUR MONEY, WE WILL DO THE MATHS IN 2020 AND C WHETHER U HAVE + OR - OVERALL!! IT IS A MARATHON NOT A 100M DASH, MR. PRESIDENT!!
Who said this is for political expedience? Were they not being paid before it was cancelled? And by the way what are they resources of our nation meant for? It is to provide interventions like this. Please stop your T.R.A.S.H. and put on your thinking cup everything should be about politics.
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"The trainees who were visibly happy over the restored allowance expressed their gratitude to the government through the health minister Dr Kwaku Agyemang Manu." Really? But for political expedience, this is one of the most unnecessary interventions. make student loans available to them. it is a smarter choice