Deputy Minister of Health and MP for Weija-Gbawe in the Greater Accra Region Madam Tina Mensa is warning unemployed private nurses to appreciate the fact that government is not under any obligation to employ them for whatever reason.
According to the minister, government does not have any bond or MoU with the private nurses that requires the former to get them jobs once they are done with school.
She was reacting to news that the Coalition of Unemployed Private Nurses have threatened to hit the streets over the government’s inability to offer them employment. The coalition maintains that its members deserve to be employed into the mainstream health sector, just like other state-trained nurses
But speaking in an interview monitored by MyNewsGh.com with Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Starr FM Wednesday, Tina Mensah asked the nurses to behave as government only does the private nurses favour by employing them so they should desist from giving unnecessary pressure.
“One thing that I want to make clear to the private nurses is that we are not under any obligation to employ them, we don’t have any bond or MoU that states that they should finish and we employ them.” she warned.
“It’s a favour we’re doing them and not obligatory, I want to make it clear to them that it is not when they come and picket that is when we employ them. When they picket that does not tickle us because we have to go to the Finance Ministry and it’s from one purse that everybody is chopping from, every ministry is getting its budget from the Finance Ministry so it’s as and when it’s possible that we employ people.” she added.
Source: Mynewsgh.com
