Unemployed nurses storm Health Ministry to demand posting
The Coalition of Unemployed Bonded Diploma Nurses on Monday stormed the Ministry of Health to demand clearance for employment.
According to members of the coalition, they are yet to be posted two years after the completion of their programme.
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia had disclosed that about 11,000 nurses had been given clearance for employment.
But the nurses are skeptical about the Vice President’s remark.
Some of them who thronged the Ministry had sponges, towels among other things, vowing not to go back home until their issue is addressed.
Speaking to citi fm some of them stressed that “our concern is we need our clearance. No clearance, No going home!”
“They claimed that they have posted 11,000 nurses; we want to see the clearance of the 11,000 they were referring to because we are the very people who are supposed to be given the clearance but we are in the house. And we are bonded with government so there is no way we could go and work anywhere. Some of us are married and others are parents. As at now some of us are still depending on our parents for survival,” another one lamented.
Another one also complained that “we are tired of being at home.”
