Unemployed nurses accuse Ministry of Health of extortion for postings

The Graduate Unemployed Nurses and Midwives Association(GUNMA) has registered displeasure with the Ministry of Health for employing illegal means to assign jobs to its members.

The group alleged that the Health Ministry often charges additional fees for posting to be done successfully.

“Some of us are being ejected from our homes because we are not being able to pay our rent. Some of us are sick. Some of us have different financial burdens. We have done a lot of things, but nobody, nothing is coming out of it.

“Any day, any time you go to the ministries, what they tell you is, go soon, it will come. We don’t know how soon this is coming. What is worse in the matter is, that some of our colleagues are being posted underground. You ask them and they will tell you I had a colleague who took me GH¢5,000, GH¢6,000, GH¢7,000 to get me this posting,” the general secretary of the association, Atta Asante noted in an interview monitored by The Ghana Report on Citi News.

He added; “You get to find out that even in 2022 those who are just about to finish their national service, some of them are in the wards working. Meanwhile, the 2020 batch are still in the house jobless”.

Subsequently, the secretary appealed to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance to provide financial clearance and permanent employment opportunities for trained nurses and midwives to enable them to meet their financial needs.