President John Dramain Mahama has stated that the Nursing trainees’ allowance arrears will be paid in July.
According to John Mahama, trainee nurses will receive their allowance from January to June next month.
He further announced that his government is going to pay nursing trainees their monthly allowances automatically every month.
John Mahama noted that the government has put in place mechanisms to ensure payment automatically.
Speaking to chiefs and people of the North East Region at Nalerigu during his Thank You Tour of the Region, John Mahama stated, “We have designed it such that your payment will come automatically every month. Every month, you will receive your money.”
“The budget was made for January, and so when we start paying you next month, the arrears from January to June will be paid to you.”
Meanwhile, Franklin Cudjoe, the President of IMANI Africa, has stated Nurses and Midwives have been pampered for too long.
According to him, successive NDC and NPP governments have been more focused on political point-scoring than on meaningful structural reforms.
He noted the politicisation of allowances for trainee nurses and teachers and labelled it as a short-sighted policy that erodes Ghana’s healthcare and education systems.
Speaking on Channel One TV, Franklin Cudjoe stated, “How have we treated nurses even when they are training—we’ve pampered them. Haven’t we?”
“Politically, one party says—John Mahama—that he is not going to pay any nurses’ allowance. The opposition at the time used it against him. And when they came, they started paying and rewarding these entities. I have never understood that game,” he noted.
Franklin Cudjoe warned, “The moment we do these shifty politics and think we can garner votes through these freebies to a section of the population that do not require it, that do not need it, we should not be crying now that they have come back biting at us”.
