Ghana
Ghana Ministry of Health says it has begun employment of all 2017/18 batch of nursing trainees into various health facilities across the country in the wake of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The President of the country, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in a national broadcast, said such health personnel would help deal with a possible surge in infections in the coming days as Ghana struggled to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease.
“Its heartening to hear of a number of retired healthcare professionals who have stepped forward to offer their services…” the President said.
Adding his voice, the Deputy Health Minister, Alexander Kodjo Kom Abban, revealed that the said categories of trained health professionals would be engaged for permanent employment.
Speaking on Accra-based Class FM, he said: “The human resource directorate is quickly making all the moves for the 2017/18 nurses who already graduated and have gone through their rotation to be quickly enrolled, so, in that aspect, their employment is already done.”
“So, all the various stages that they have to go through, over some lengthy period, is going to be shortened so that they can be quickly be deployed to assist in this fight.”
