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Nurses to receive diploma at last
Accra, July 16, GNA - A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
was on Monday signed between the Ministry of Health and the
University of Ghana, Legon to award diploma to nurses after
their training.
The MOU was signed by Professor Albert George Amoah,
Provost, College of Health Sciences and Mr. A .T Konu,
Registrar, for the University and Dr. Gladys Norley Ashittey,
Deputy Minister of Health and the Lepuwura Alhaji M. N
Jawula, Chief Director, MOH.
The agreement marked the end of a long struggle over the
accreditation and award of diploma of the MOH's Nursing
Trainings.
Dr. Norley Ashittey explained that an agreement had finally
been reached to allow the University to give top-ups to the
qualified back-log of six batches of the over 3,000 Nursing
students and further award them diploma certificates to
boost their confidence in practicing the profession.
She gave the assurance that the MOH was doing all it could
to ensure quality training of health professionals in the
country.
She thanked the University for its co-operation and said the
Ministry would make sure that the requisite infrastructure
were provided for all the Nursing Training institutions in
the country.
Prof. Amoah, indicated that the top-up programme had already
started and the process would continue till all the students
received their full diploma certificates.
Alhaji Jawula cautioned the Nurses not to leave the country
for greener pastures but to exhibit high sense of devotion
and loyalty to the county.
He said the issue of bonding would now seriously be applied
as a check to the issue of brain drain of health
professionals to other countries.
GNA
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