Four nurses in Tanzania’s western Tabora region are to be charged in court with harvesting the organs of baby twins, a regional official has said. A committee set up to investigate the incident found that the bodies of the prematurely born twins were mutilated after they had died. The mother found her babies’ eyes gouged […]
The red listing of Ghana by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Kingdom (UK) will not halt the ongoing brain drain of health workers, says David Tenkorang, the General Secretary of the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA). Mr Tenkorang believes that the UK and other developed countries will continue to recruit […]
Nearly 150 experienced nurses and other health professionals from the Pantang Hospital have left the shores of the country in search of greener pastures in the last six years. Of the number, 100 are specialised psychiatric and general nurses while the rest consist of doctors, pharmacists, technicians and other experienced personnel in the healthcare delivery […]
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has confirmed that some 120 Ghanaian nurses have been selected to serve a two-year contract in Barbados. The number is out of the almost 600 applicants who expressed interest in the program to serve at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Bridgetown, in the Caribbean country. The Ministry together with officials […]
The Foreign Ministers of Ghana and Barbados, on behalf of the Governments and peoples of their respective countries, have signed an agreement for the recruitment of a total of one hundred and twenty (120) nurses from Ghana to complement the staffing needs of the island nation. The agreement was signed on Friday, 15th November, 2019, […]
At least six nursing students of the Koforidua Nursing and Midwifery Training College have been sacked. The students were dismissed as a result of poor academic performances, while about 20 others were also repeated. Star News reports that the affected students are mostly students pursuing Registered Midwifery Course. The sacked students are reported to have […]
The Chief of Wiamoase in the Sekyere South District of the Ashanti region, Nana Boakye Yiadom has described nurses as “the most wicked of all professionals in Ghana and in the world at large”. According to him, nurses, since the time of “Jesus Christ”, have been so insensitive that, they feel no remorse in denying […]
Counselor, life coach and motivational speaker, Framk Edem Adofoli has revealed how he almost he relished the ambition of marrying a nurse but had to truncate that ambition after he dated 3different nurses and realized they were not going to be good wives. According to him, he developed a soft spot for nurses at some […]
The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Ghana has revealed that 235 of the 250 candidates who sat for the 2019 online licensing examination earlier this year passed. This number represents 94% of candidates who sat for the January examination. Of the 250 candidates from the various post basic nursing training schools who sat for the […]
The National Service Scheme has released the postings of some 9,018 nurses for the 2019/2020 service year. To this end, all nurses who have registered for National Service are requested to log onto the NSS website www.nss.gov.gh to check their placement before proceeding to the various NSS registration centers to complete the registration process. A […]
Some aggrieved Members of the Ghana Registered Nursed and Midwives Association (GRNMA) are up in arms against the leadership of the Association, demanding full accountability for their monies and levies they have collected so far. According to them, failure to do so will culminate in their refusal to accept and pay new levies being rolled […]
