The launch of the restoration of the nurses' trainee allowance is scheduled to take place in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region on October 10, 2017.
This will see about 58,000 trainee nurses and midwives receive their monthly allowance after the said launch.
Speaking at the seventh induction and oath-swearing ceremony for allied health graduates in Accra Saturday, the minister of health Kwaku Agyeman Manu explained that the allowances will be paid to the nurses without the addition of taxes. This is because government wants to ease the pressure on nurses, especially those posted to remote areas.
“Nurses and midwives were previously receiving a GH¢525 gross allowance, which was taxed, but we are saying we will restore the allowance without tax,†he stressed.
Agyeman-Manu also laid bare the government’s preparedness to go paperless in all sectors and said efforts were being made to digitize services at all health facilities across the country.
“We are currently doing a pilot in Cape Coast and six other health facilities in the Central Region,†he said.
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The minister said the government was investing in the health sector, while at the same time partnering the private sector to invest in same.
The Registrar of the Allied Health Professional Council, Dr Samuel Yaw Opoku, who also addressed the health professionals, asked those practising without licences to desist from that.
“It is equally an offence for any institution to engage the services of an unlicensed person,†he added.
He advised them to continually search for knowledge to improve their services.
The Head of the Department of Physiotherapy at the College of Health Sciences at the University of Ghana, Dr Ajediran Idowu Bello, proposed to the Ministry of Health to include allied health professionals in the primary healthcare setting to ensure a shift from institution-based care to community and society-based practice.
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