We Do Not Owe Trainee Nurses And Midwives Eight Months Allowances - Health Ministry

We Do Not Owe Trainee Nurses And Midwives Eight Months Allowances - Health Ministry

 

 

Ministry of Health has rejected claims that government owes members of the Ghana Nurse Midwife Trainees’ Association eight months’ worth of of allowances. The Ghana Nurses and Midwife Trainees’ Association, has threatened to embark on a nationwide demonstration if the government fails to pay eight months of allowance arrears allegedly owed its members and the National

 

Secretary of the Ghana Nurses and Midwife Trainees’ Association, Lambert Nsobilla in an interview also said attempts to get the Health Ministry to pay them have yielded no results. We are on the cusp of our exams and a lot of our members depend on the allowances to pay their school fees and their inability to do that will stop them from writing exams. The allowance was one

 

 

of the promises this government made to us in the the lead-up to the 2016 election, and they did their best to fulfill it, to some extent. The last payment was made in November 2020, but they were the payments for March, April, and May 2020. So since May 2020, Allowances have come to a halt. The government also promised us monthly allowance payments but hasn’t fulfilled them.

 

 

Also, before the payments were halted there was no defined method. Sometimes they pay after three, four or five months. We are not only going to say that this will be the last resort. If it takes conferences or walking on the streets to cry to the government for the over the GHS56,000 that we are owed to be paid, we will do just that, he stated. But the Ministry in a press statement

 

 

signed by the Chief Director at the Ministry of Health, Kwabena Boadu Oku-Afari, said the claims by the group are not true. The Ministry of Health wishes to assure the public that it does not owe any student to the tune of eight months as stated in the press release also from GNMTA, neither has the Ministry stopped the payment of trainee allowances to students of government health

 

 

training institutions. The Ministry in the statement also however said it was also on course to paying the three month arrears of the trainees. It said, in the meantime, the Ministry has also processed the payment for the January, February, and the March 2021 for continuing students, which has been approved by the Ministry of Finance for the Controller and the Accountant General to release the funds.