The Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced a new volunteer programme aimed at supporting healthcare delivery in rural and underserved communities across Ghana.
The initiative aims to create opportunities for more than 6,000 health graduates who are still waiting for employment.
Officials say the programme will include health workers who completed their training from 2022 onward. It will also cover those who were not captured in the ongoing recruitment process for the 2021 batch of nurses and midwives.
Speaking at a press briefing in Accra on Monday, May 18, 2026, the Director of Human Resources at the Ministry of Health, Frederick Mensah-Acheampong, explained that the rollout will begin in the coming weeks.
He added that the programme will run alongside a mop-up exercise to fill remaining job vacancies in the health sector.
According to him, participants in the volunteer scheme will receive stipends. The ministry also plans to give them priority when future large-scale recruitment exercises begin.
“These volunteers will be given some stipends and then they will also be considered, they will be given some priority when we are going to do the main recruitment,” Mr Acheampong explained.
He did not disclose how much the volunteers will receive or the full conditions of the programme.
Mr Acheampong said the ministry will first consider nurse assistant preventive cadres under the scheme.
It will then extend opportunities to other assistant health categories to strengthen preventive and community healthcare services.
The ministry also announced a separate recruitment plan for medical officers to serve in rural and hard-to-reach areas.
Officials said the process will begin in the coming weeks, although they did not reveal how many doctors will be recruited.
He explained that Ghana currently has an estimated 105,000 trained health workers who are not yet employed.
These new measures are to help respond to the growing number of unemployed health professionals across the country.
