Ghana is set to employ 8,076 nurse assistants as the country’s Coronavirus cases near 12,000.
The trained medics are candidates who completed in 2017 in both clinical and preventives.
Their employment, according to a letter dated June 9, 2020, from the Ministry of Finance and signed by the Deputy Minister, Abena Osei-Asare, is to take effect not earlier than November 1, 2020.
“The emoluments of the personnel should be charged against the Compensation of Employees vote of the Ministry of Health in the 2020 Annual Estimates,” the letter sighted by Dailymailgh.com reads.
“The Ministry of Health is to ensure that the Nurse Assistant Clinical and Nurse Assistant Preventive staff have their documents processed in time and placed on the Mechanized Payroll to enable the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department effect payment of their salaries,” the letter added.
The development comes after officials revealed that the country lacks enough physicians and nurses to attend to persons infected with the virus.
Ghana currently has 11,964 COVID-19 cases with 54 deaths.
“We do not have enough critical care physicians, we do not have enough critical care nurses. These are the two main important personnel we need for ICU care,” a Special Advisor on Health to President Akufo-Addo, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare told CNR.
Dr. Nsiah-Asare, however, said more health workers will be trained and deployed to the isolation centres.
“We have medical officers who have been trained and residents who are also under training, who are all helping. Luckily, all the student nurses who are doing intensive care at Korle Bu have all been subscripted and are also working. For nurses, we can always train them on the job,” he added.
Source: Daily Mail GH
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