After their long-awaited dreams of employment were crushed, more than 300 enrolled nurses from the 2020-year group in Ghana are devastated.
These nurses have been unemployed for four years and are eagerly awaiting the Ghana Health Service's pledge to relaunch its recruiting portal. They passed their licensing exams and received their Professional Identification Numbers (PIN) in 2020.
When they arrived at the Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate and learnt that just thirty of them would be hired, their excitement changed to despair. Due to the region's 122-spot nursing quota, the majority of nurses were not placed in jobs.
They were shocked when the Health Directorate's Human Resource Manager said that the 30 nurses who had been chosen would be assigned to the Ada East and West districts, where there is a severe lack of medical personnel.
After years of waiting, the remaining nurses were upset by this statement because they felt ignored and irritated. A lot of the impacted nurses, especially nursing moms, had stayed overnight at the directorate in the hopes of hearing good news. They were clearly disappointed.
"We thought today would mark the end of our four-year joblessness, but instead, our situation has worsened," expressed Veronica Anokye, one of the impacted nurses.
Without explicit directives from the Ghana Health Service, the quota could not be surpassed, according to a senior health directorate employee.
Ninety-two of the remaining spots were set aside for various nursing specialities, including general nursing officers and midwives. This depressing circumstance draws attention to the continuous difficulties Ghana's healthcare system faces.
Source: Ghana Celebrities